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It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

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The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

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Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

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Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.

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Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

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If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

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We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

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An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

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Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

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Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new.

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