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> [No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/no-longer-can-we-afford-to-stuff-the-brains-of-the-young-with-facts/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

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## More by Pearl S. Buck

> [For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/for-war-to-man-like-childbirth-to-women-is-simplifying-in-its/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [Hunger makes a thief of any man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/hunger-makes-a-thief-of-any-man/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/war-is-the-most-devastating-endemic-and-epidemic-disease-the-human/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/in-our-changing-world-nothing-changes-more-than-geography/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/no-one-really-understood-music-unless-he-was-a-scientist-her-father/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/upon-the-profound-discontent-of-the-young-in-every-country-do-i-set/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/wang-lung-sat-smoking-thinking-of-the-silver-as-it-had-lain-upon-the/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/the-secret-of-joy-in-work-is-contained-in-one-word-excellence-to-know/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/if-our-american-way-of-life-fails-the-child-it-fails-us-all/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [“Mind and body were well or ill together.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/mind-and-body-were-well-or-ill-together/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/u-meni-postoji-mjesto-gdje-ivim-posve-sama-tu-obnavljam-svoja-prolje/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/brave-young-american-men-climbed-the-rugged-slopes-of-korean/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/truth-is-always-exciting-speak-it-then-life-is-dull-without-it/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [“All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/all-scientific-effort-must-now-be-concentrated-in-the-area-of-defence/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

> [to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/to-know-how-to-read-is-to-light-a-lamp-in-the-mind-to-release-the/)

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