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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

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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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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing.

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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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Literacy in itself is no education.

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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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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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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Labor is God's education.

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Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

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The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

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Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

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If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

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