"Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual."

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Source : "The Philosophy of Education". Book by William Torrey Harris, 1889.

William Torrey Harris

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“Booking an act for my Dad's 70th birthday, I wanted a great act and went straight to John Archer- his reputation in the magic world is among the very best. I was so pleased he was able to do it, and he absolutely brought the house down. It wasÂ brilliant, hysterically funny, and perfectly pitched for the occasion. He made the evening. I'd recommend him unreservedly.”
“But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.”

Source : Donald Grant Mitchell (1851). “Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart”, p.135
“We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.”
“I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.”

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“Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived there would be in different groups, playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground. As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there-wern't.'' -The boy in the striped Pajamas”
“Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.”
“Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.”
“Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.”

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