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[...] recently came across an article on Men with Pens about cheap education and continuing learning. Working in education myself, I thought I would give [...]

Like you, I love to read textbooks. When I would go to the university bookstore each semester to fork over my zillions of dollars, I would check the shelves with books for classes I wasn’t taking but thought were interesting. There were some great finds there!

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There’s education and there’s knowledge. I think we want knowledge… from whatever sources are available to us. I could have spent hours in color theory classes and I have, but seeing a certain red mark in the corner of Cezanne’s Bather’s from the Barnes Collection at the National Gallery really taught how to do it.

And books? Books are treasures with maps inside.

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