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“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.”

Writing States Learning Defiance

Book:Auto da Fay: A Memoir

Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir

“I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on”

“Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.”

States Learning Cooking Cooks Revolutionary

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.”

People World Believe May Stills States United United States Learning Dangerous Absolutes Bubbles Santa Taboo Santa Claus

Author:Peter Thiel

“I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.”

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Author:Herbert Newton Casson