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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

 

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Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show.

 

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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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Education: a debt due from present to future generations.

 

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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

 

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Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

 

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

 

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

 

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History is a race between education and catastrophe.

 

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It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.

 

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Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.

 

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

 

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

 

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I was determined to know beans. Walden

 

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Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

 

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There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

 

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

 

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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

 

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

 

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Correction does much, but encouragement does