"I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."
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"Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got."
"The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself."
"All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated."
"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"People differ to such a degree they agree on nothing,Except death that is, and even on that they disagree.Some say the soul goes on after the death of the bodyWhile others claim the soul, with the body, dies too."
"If you want to get educated, fall in love with learning."
"The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it."
"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing"
"Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated."
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
"in reality there is no such thing out of profit and loss .education is commerce"
"What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all."
"Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember."
"Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit"
"To stay young, accept the changes and continue to learn."