School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
E.M. Forster
Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile... That is not imagination. No, it kills it.... Your universities? Oh, yes, you have learned men who collect... Facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?
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