John Updike Quotes About Education
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You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.
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Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
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It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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