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Dave Obey

"Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account."

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"Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account."

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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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"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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"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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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."

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"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."

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"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."

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"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"

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"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."

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"More faults are created than cured by professional teachers."

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"This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan."
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