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Dave Van Ronk

"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."

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"They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously."

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Donna Grant

"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."

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Donna Grant

"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."

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Donna Grant

"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."

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Donna Grant

"Experience is a sacred education."

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Donna Grant

"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."

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Donna Grant

"Keep reading, Keep learning."

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Donna Grant

"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."

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Donna Grant

"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."

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Donna Grant

"Learn how to learn...then start learning."

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Donna Grant

"The Kingdom of God should be the main goal of our financial investments."

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Dave Van Ronk
"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."

Country

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Dave Van Ronk
"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."

Navy

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Dave Van Ronk
"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians."

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Dave Van Ronk
"One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing."

Classroom

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Dave Van Ronk
"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."

Family

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Dave Van Ronk
"You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work."

Work

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Dave Van Ronk
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."

Jazz

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Dave Van Ronk
"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."

Time

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Dave Van Ronk
"If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes."

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Dave Van Ronk
"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world."

Music

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