All our children's hopes and dreams turn to ashes in exam papers - their delicate baby wings crack under the weight of books - the classroom ends up as prison and to dream becomes a criminal offence. This is not education, this is bestiality.
— Abhijit Naskar Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
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Knowledge begins with the acceptance of ignorance.
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I don't know a lot of things, but the one thing I do know is that I don't know a lot of things.
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Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy.
— Abhijit Naskar The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
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For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.
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Start small and keep going.
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