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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
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"And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another."
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"Homework doesn't end when you receive a diploma. Often, it's just the beginning of your learning."
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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."
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Personal Development
"School overpopulates students' minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow."
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"The educated man, habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries. In my the minds of my RAF hearers this perspective simply did not exist. It seemed to me that they did not really believe that we have any reliable knowledge of historic man. But this was often curiously combined with a conviction that we knew a great deal about Prehistoric Man: doubtless because Prehistoric Man is labelled "Science" (which is reliable) whereas Napoleon or Julius Caesar is labelled as "History" (which is not."
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"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."
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"Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men."
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"If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated."
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"If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."
Research
"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions."
Family
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
Truth
"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
Cultural
"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents."
Cultural
"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."
Cultural
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
Identity
"I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future."
Education
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
People
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Life
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