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What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up.

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

The mind is an activity, not a repository.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.