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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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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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Figuring out how to think about the problem.

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Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

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The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

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A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

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Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

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The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

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The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

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Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

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