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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
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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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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
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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.
720 books
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130 friends
1,278 books
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48 friends
1,375 books
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347 friends
587 books
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70 friends
1,078 books
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17 friends
1,345 books
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101 friends
1,224 books
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87 friends
305 books
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107 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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