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Young cat! If you keep
Your eyes open enough,
Oh, the stuff you will learn!
The most wonderful stuff!

— Dr. Seuss I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)

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Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Horton Hears a Who! (1954)

From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)

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Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

G. K. Chesterton

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Confucius

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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