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"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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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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"He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short."
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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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"To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."
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"The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism."
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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."
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"They say education has no end. If you still disagree with this, here is a better way to take it in; "Education has an end that never comes"."
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"The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is "youniversity". YOU got the lecture halls of thoughts in YOU! You got everything you need to graduate with first class accomplishments put in you! YOU can do it!"
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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
People
"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
Rights
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
Desire
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
Work
"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."
Attention
"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."
Technology
"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
Paradise
"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."
Soul
"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
Knowledge
"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."
Friendship
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