Quotern

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Education is a vaccine for violence.

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Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

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Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!

-- Swami Sivananda

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The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

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We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

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As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

-- Novalis

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Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

-- Calvin Coolidge

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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

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