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To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.
Alfie Kohn
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Alfie Kohn
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 15
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Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed.
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