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"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
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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!"

"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."

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

"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."

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

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

"More faults are created than cured by professional teachers."
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"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."


"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system."


"No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence."


"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."


"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education."


"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."
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