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Sport

Learning is not a spectator sport.

Anonymous

Success

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.

David M. Burns

Superman

Label on a child's Superman costume: Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.

Unknown

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Temper, Temper

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

The Best

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Dan Quayle

The Object

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Thought

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

Thoughts

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Tolerance

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

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Understand

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucious (551 BC - 479 BC)

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