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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

Quotes

“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”

Richard Feynman · Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, 1985 · Primary source

“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education… The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”

Eleanor Roosevelt · My Day, 1935-1962 · Primary source

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

Benjamin Franklin · No reliable source

Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1860
Culture

An examination of self-cultivation, arguing that education, travel, society and varied experience can broaden judgement and correct personal limitations.

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Helen Keller · 1903
The Story of My Life

Helen Keller recounts her childhood, education and development as a deafblind person, focusing on communication, learning and intellectual independence.

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