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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

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Graduation
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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Interviews
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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. – William Godwin

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When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. – Billy Joel

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Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of ones own culture and social organisation. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and youre not going to change each others minds. Its a waste of your time and my time. – Barbara Bush

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