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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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"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."
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Personal Development
"If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."
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Personal Development
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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Personal Development
"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher."
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Personal Development
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
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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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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
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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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"You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do."
Responsibility
"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."
Attention
"We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility."
Ethics
"If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached."
Education
"Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution."
Morality
"There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class."
Society
"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
Honesty
"Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet."
Morality
"Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards."
Home
"Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one."
Technology
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