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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

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Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ↗

— Plato

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They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#bright #country #education #marriage #smart

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#comprehension #education #fiction #learning #nonfiction

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#learning #surprise #wonder #education