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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. ↗

— Ruth Beechick

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Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. ↗

— Charlotte M. Mason

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Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together. ↗

— Scott Hayden

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Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together. ↗

— Assata Shakur

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The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry--is not even a "subject"--but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning. ↗

— Neil Postman

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Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life. ↗

— John Holt

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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. ↗

— James Beattie

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