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“I wondered how television worked. I thought about how an interior decorator decided on colors and styles. I wondered, when babies tarted learning how to walk, if they didn't know that that couldn't walk.”

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Cupcake Brown

Cupcake Brown, born on March 5, 1964, is a renowned author known for his unique literary style and deeply engaging themes. more

“Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe that we will not rise above our canon. Our canon is part of us, deeply, subconsciously. And the characters and teachings in our canon shape our characters--good, evil, mediocre, or great.”

Believe Important Book Character Stories Law Purpose Universe Evil Reading I Believe Our Lives Teaching Shapes Tasks Mediocre Rise Above Canon Good Evil

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.”

Thinking Mind Force Rooms Exercise Consistency Rigor Weightlifting Barbell

Author:Oliver DeMille

“The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.”

Masters Slave Entertainment Rome Leisure Incapable

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.”

Responsibility Students Advantage Rewards Pushing Educate Innate

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.”

Children Stills Reading Process Our Children Educational Pursuit True Education

Author:Oliver DeMille

“If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.”

Ifs Song Drama Boring Negativity Negative People

Author:Eminem

“The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.”

Thinking Writing Art Reading Communication Listening Indispensable Liberal Arts Reading Writing

Author:Oliver DeMille

“The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another”

Humans Human Beings Myth Educate

Author:Oliver DeMille

“The only person who can fix education is the student.”

Persons Students

Author:Oliver DeMille

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