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- We teach best what we most need to learn.
(Richard Bach, "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah")
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- Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa
(Richelle Mead, "Blood Promise")
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- All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.
(Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief")
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- I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.
(Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief")
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- Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back the the way I trusted his front.
(Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief")
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- See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson
(Rick Riordan, "The Lightning Thief")
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- I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do-like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.
(Rick Riordan, "The Red Pyramid")
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- Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intencions. They were about to star rumors flighing around the sea about the son of poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.
(Rick Riordan, "The Sea of Monsters")
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- Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!
(Rick Riordan, "The Sea of Monsters")
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- The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.
(Rick Riordan, "The Titan's Curse")
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- He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once.
(Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land")
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- The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
(Plato, "The Republic")
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- The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor's job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.
(Randy Pausch, "The Last Lecture")
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- Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
(Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451")
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- Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
(Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451")
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