The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

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"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Ambition

"If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Success

"Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Empowerment

"Small aim is a crime."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Ambition

"You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Hard Work

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

Education

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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