"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."

Education

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Words carry weight, and Sydney J. Harris's insight into education is no exception. It serves as a gentle reminder that amidst the chaos of modern life, timeless wisdom still holds the power to guide our decisions and clarify our values.

About Sydney J. Harris

Sydney J. Harris was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, "Strictly Personal", was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada. He also wrote an aperiodic feature called "Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things".

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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

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"Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."

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"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

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"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'."

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"So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education."

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."

— Wynton Marsalis
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"I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry."

— Roald Hoffmann
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"I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting."

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