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“He was a simple man who didn’t feel inferior about his lack of education and, even more amazing, showed no superiority because he had succeeded despite that lack.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Nature offers simply the germs which education is to develop and perfect.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“Everything you think you think because somebody promoted the ideas. Education—nothing but promotion.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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“sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

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“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved”

― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

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“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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