Learning Quote by Thomas C. Foster

““Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning.””

Thomas C. Foster

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“When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.”

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“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.”

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“corollaries—where have I seen his face, don’t I know that”

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“characters as rich and complex as those we believe ourselves to be”

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