"One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them."

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“With me they get a solid foundation, the disciplines of learning. In my class they don't get away with hot air discussions and exchanging their opinions and describing their experiences. What opinions can they have? What have they experienced? What do they know? That's an affront! They learn what I know.”

“We got this jerky sub. she don't know a thing and she's trying to teach it.”

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"After high school I wiped the dust off my shoes and thought, ‘I’m never going to let that happen to me again. I’m never going to be afraid again."

— Steven Crowder

Politics1987

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"Hindu learning in general was suppressed since Hindu and Buddhist schools were attached to temples and monasteries. These were regularly destroyed from the very beginning and with them schools of lear…"

— Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji

Politics1101–1206

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"September of the year 490 B.C. was to my mind a more cardinal moment of fate for Europe than August 1914. Western civilization...was saved in its infancy at Marathon, and ten years later by Leonidas a…"

— Stanley Baldwin

Politics1867–1947

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"We would struggle to heft a big bag of groceries home, but Shivaji would pick up sack after sack, and heave them right into waiting lorries. He was never a shirker and his capacity to work hard has de…"

— Rajinikanth

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