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Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

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Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

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Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

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To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

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The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

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We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

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The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.

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It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. 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.

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