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My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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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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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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...nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose... ↗

— Mary Shelley

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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other. ↗

— Mark Twain

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W.W. Hale the Forth bought the car for Headmaster Franklin, or didn’t they mention that? Granted it was to make up for the fire that W.W. Hale allegedly started in the eighth grade before they suggested that all current and future W.W. Hales continue their education elsewhere- which worked out just as well since I’m at the Knightsbury Institute now.” “I’ve never heard of it” “My father got a letter just this week telling him I have become a model student” “Congratulations”… “Yeah, well, I’m the only student.”… “Of course the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks. ↗

— Ally Carter

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The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it ↗

— Lawrence M. Krauss

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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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