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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

—George Bernard Shaw

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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

—George Bernard Shaw

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

—Alvin Toffler

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Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

—Alexander Pope

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

—J. M. Barrie

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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

—Robert J. Sawyer in Calculating God

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

—Terry Pratchett

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Exchange ideas frequently.

—James Cash Penney

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

—Woodrow Wilson

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

—E.M. Forster

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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

—Hesketh Pearson

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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

—Franklin P. Adams

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Someday we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

—Winston Churchill

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