Children don't carry the weight of history, so their capacity for heavy things might be greater. But few adults believe this, so we pass along only what we think they can bear. Children wonder later why we didn't tell them everything so they could avoid our mistakes.

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"Hurt is worse than anger, you know. Anger dwells in the head, then fades. Hurt lingers in the soul. It rearranges your feelings without your permission. It blinds you."

- Daniel Black

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

- Nelson Mandela

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"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

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"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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