I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

~ Albert Einstein

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I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations

~ Winston S. Churchill

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It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to measure up was paralysing. It was never that Mother wanted me to beat my classmates in grades, what she wanted was for me to have my answers right. It was unclouded perfection I was up against.

~ Eudora Welty

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