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His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

— Mary Antin

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

— Plato

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

— Albert J. Nock

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

— William Hazlitt

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

— Mason Cooley

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

— Arthur Balfour

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

— William Shenstone

Speech happens to not be his language.

— Madame de Stael

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

— William Godwin

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

— Patricia Polacco

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