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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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Some children's answers to church school questions - from the Church of England:
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I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying
succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual
powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse
and expansion.
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I was determined to know beans. Walden
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
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The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education
of youth.
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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure
of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought
-- that is to be educated.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it,
rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
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To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers,
helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and
powerfully, here on the very spot.
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