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The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
-James Baldwin
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Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. Acts 26:24
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Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. 1 Thessalonians 4:11
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
-Thomas Carlyle
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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
-Emile-Auguste Chartier
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
-Allen Ginsberg
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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
-Samuel Johnson
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
-Plato
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Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.
-Lou Ann Walker
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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Books about Students
