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Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
- Will Rogers
Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- Will Rogers
People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people
- Will Rogers
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
- William Faulkner
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
- William Faulkner
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
- William Hazlitt
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
- William Howard Taft
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
- William James
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
- William Law
The education of the world is a terrible one, and it has come down with relentless rigour on Africa from the most remote times! What the African will become after this awfully hard lesson is learned, is among the future developments of Providence. When He, who is higher than the highest, accomplishes His purposes, this will be a wonderful country, and again something like what it was of old, when Zerah and Tirhaka flourished, and were great.
- David Livingstone
God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.
- JC Ryle
Since the Court took God our of our schools, we've gotten exactly what we should expect: godless schools.
- Norman Geisler