It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
ERIC HOFFERThe central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Anger is a prelude to courage.
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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
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Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
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A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one’s own life.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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