"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

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"In prison it must be made rich Library, people must educate their self there. Not to go stupid and more."

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"Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion."

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"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."

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"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."

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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

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"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America."

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"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."

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"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."

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