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"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."
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"I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other."
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"We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool."
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"To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people."
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"Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life..."
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"Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) was an England reformer. His words are true and relevant in 2025. He said, There is a moral as well as an intellectual objection to the custom, frequent in these times, of making education consist in a mere smattering of twenty different things, instead of in the mastery of five or six."
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"The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of me."
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"Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."
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"The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love."
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"Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence."
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"Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences."
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"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing"
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"It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning."
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"That's what education should be, I said, the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way."
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"Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves."
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"In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know."
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"My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading."
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"There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn."
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"Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books"
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"Yeah. Floyd is his batman. His what?Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant. You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know."
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