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Quote by William Godwin
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mer

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. – William Godwin

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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. – William Godwin

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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. – William Godwin

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Future
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. – William Godwin

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So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children. – Phil Lesh

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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – G.M. Trevelyan

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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports. – Mahesh Bhupathi

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The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point. – David Cameron

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