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I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

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Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

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The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary.

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The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

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My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

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The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

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The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

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One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

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Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

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It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.

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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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A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

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