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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin

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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent. – Bob Riley

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As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, its like were downgrading if you look at the investment in education… thats the thing that worries me. – will.i.am

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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. – Bertrand Russell

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Always fall in with what youre asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatevers going. Not against: with. – Robert Frost

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There is still a future with music, because people want music. – Maynard James Keenan

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