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It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry. ↗

— Damon Horowitz

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For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom? ↗

— Gregory of Nyssa

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I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination. ↗

— Howard Zinn

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All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks. ↗

— John Grisham

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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

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Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ↗