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“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.”

“It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

“I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.”

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

“A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail. A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student. A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so. A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.”

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”