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There is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women
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Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.
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Very many people, very many students, who otherwise would succeed, who would go through school creditably, graduating with honours, have failed to succeed because they became discouraged.
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You will constantly be surprised to find how little you really know about your work, and how much more somebody else knows about it than you do.
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I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.
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No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.