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“The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.”

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Author:John Mortimer

“When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough; the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.”

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Author:Edith Hamilton

“Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.”

“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.”

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Author:Edith Wharton

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

Source: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”

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Author:Cato the Elder

“The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.”

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Author:William Dean Howells

“It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.”

“As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.”

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Book:Poems, Plays and Essays

Source: Poems, Plays and Essays

“The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.”

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Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions