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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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It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. ↗

— Ezra Taft Benson

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Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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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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…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters. ↗

— Norton Juster

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