Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
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Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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