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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‘Does your teacher use class time well?’ and, ‘When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?’

It’s important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What’s done is done.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.