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"I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself."
"Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding."
"It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree."
"Art is a process, not a product."
"A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber."
"A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process."
"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."
"Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way."
"One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work."
"Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear."
"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil."
"Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight."
"down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us"
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."
"All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are scientifically illiterate. That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness about any determination of illiteracy, whether it applies to language or to science. But anything like 95 percent illiteracy is extremely serious."
"Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule."