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“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
― Richard Shaull, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein

“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
― James Madison

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
― Jacques Barzun