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I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding. ↗

— Randy Pausch

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People think of education as something they can finish. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for. ↗

— Eric Greitens

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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

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My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company." "You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners (...) ↗

— Jane Austen

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My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. ↗

— Mary Shelley

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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within. ↗

— Ann Radcliffe

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In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place. ↗

— Marc Parent

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Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn? ↗

— Bauvard

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