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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. ↗

— Julia Child

#lifelong-learning #love #education

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life. ↗

— Brigham Young

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Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her. ↗

— Shannon Hale

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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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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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

— Bruno Bettelheim

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

— Gerald Durrell

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