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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
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“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
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“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
― The Pleasures of Life
― The Pleasures of Life
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,352 books
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347 friends
1,345 books
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101 friends
1,217 books
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87 friends
1,064 books
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17 friends
1,273 books
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48 friends
1,131 books
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138 friends
581 books
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70 friends
721 books
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130 friends
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Favorite Genres
Book Club, Business, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, and Science
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