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Do you know some beautiful quotes, excerpts and poems on the topic of education (and the benefits and pleasures of reading)?

For example:

>If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

Poetry would be especially welcomed (the more imagery-filled the better).

>> No.10623673

>True men are not supplied by school; if they are nevertheless there, they are there in spite of school.

MAX STIRNER, The False Principle of Our Education

>> No.10623818

>Heinsius, the keeper of the library at Leyden in Holland..."I no sooner" (saith he) "come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and sweet content that I pity all our great ones and rich men that know not this happiness."

>> No.10623845

>>10623818

lovely

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>>10623818
>I usually fill my memory-places with the images of beautiful women, which excite my memory . . . and believe me: when I use beautiful women as memory images, I find it much easier to arrange and repeat the notions which I have entrusted to those places. You now have a most useful secret of artificial memory, a secret which I have (through modesty) long remained silent about: if you wish to remember quickly, dispose the images of the most beautiful virgins into memory places; the memory is marvellously excited by images of women . . . This precept is useless to those who dislike women and they will find it very difficult to gather the fruits of this art.
t. peter of ravenna