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“A formal education will teach you how to conform with society. Self-education will teach you how to get out of conformity so that you can fill your life with adventure and beauty.”
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“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
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“All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.”
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“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
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“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
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