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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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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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The point is, that we want to be constantly on the lookout for ways of improving whatever work we are engaged in, whether that work be milking cows or doing something else.
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There is an indescribable something about work with the hands that tends to develop a student's mind.
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No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.