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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
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"Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator."
"To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places."
"Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."
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