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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.

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Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

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If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality.

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

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"A penny for your thoughts?"
"A dollar for your death."

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