Best Quotes About Education (Top 100)
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
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I've never let my school interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky
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You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Brigham Young
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Socrates
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Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Mark Twain
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret Mead
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
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I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
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The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
Stanley Fish
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
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[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim Henson
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Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Jerry Seinfeld
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
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Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Maria Montessori
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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
Bertrand Russell
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
Walker Percy
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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Stanley Kubrick
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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
Jean Piaget
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A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey Hepburn
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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
Dr. Seuss
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
Richard Dawkins
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One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
John Henrik Clarke
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
John Dewey
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
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Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
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The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
Seymour Papert
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well
Rene Descartes
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein
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Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Even More Education Quotes
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nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
Oscar Wilde
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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan
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You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
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Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
B. F. Skinner
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas More
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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
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There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
John Adams
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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Kofi Annan
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
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It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
Jean Piaget
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
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The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
Martin Buber
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
Ezra Pound
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Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
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The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
Norton Juster
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
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We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander
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I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
Juana Inテδゥs de la Cruz
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
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There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
Kurt Hahn
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Lily Tomlin
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You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.
Cheryl Strayed
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl R. Rogers
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I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion
Kurt Hahn
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Kofi Annan
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.
John Perkins
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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Richard Bach
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner
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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas
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I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
Groucho Marx
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney
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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
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Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
Marva Collins
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The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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All of life is a constant education.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge
Plato
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
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The mere imparting of information is not education.
Carter G. Woodson
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Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo
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Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
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There is a brilliant child locked inside every student
Marva Collins
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
Barbara Jordan
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
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Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.
Martin Heidegger
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Al McGuire
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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.
Louisa May Alcott
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
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Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.
Kurt Lewin
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
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Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
Diane Ravitch
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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
Marvin Minsky
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
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the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
Andy Rooney
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
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A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
Fats Domino
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Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
Lucretia Mott
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Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
Thad Cochran
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
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The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
Desiderius Erasmus
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.
Lee Iacocca
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker
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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
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American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?
Diane Ravitch
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Jerome Bruner
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.
Plato
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True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Leon Trotsky
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Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Bill Cosby
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The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Fred Allen
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There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Anthony Trollope
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No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco
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Education is the process of selling someone on books.
Douglas Wilson
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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori
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Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
Anna Garlin Spencer
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
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You teach best what you most need to learn.
Richard Bach
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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
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Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
Mother Jones
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya
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A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
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How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
John Abbott
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An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick the Great
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie
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Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.
Norman Doidge
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
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Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
Louis L'Amour
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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn.
John Bradshaw
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We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.
Josephine Baker
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Vilfredo Pareto
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren
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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
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Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.
Jacques Derrida
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From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Edward de Bono
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Georg Cantor
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Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities—that's training or instruction—but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas Moore
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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
W. C. Fields
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We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
Bob Taft
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There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
Beah Richards
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Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
Cynthia Heimel
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
Dar Williams
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The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
Alphonso Jackson
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
John W. Gardner
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We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.
Maria Montessori
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That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Maria Callas
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
Aristippus
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
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Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
Charles Handy
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To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.
Chris Hadfield
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert
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It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
Robert M. Hutchins
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The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Chanakya
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It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Chanakya
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It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Don Herold
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
Dan Rather
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
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A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
Bernard Iddings Bell
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
Euripides
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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana
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Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
Albert Einstein
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Education : a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Eric Hoffer
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
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The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
Avery Brundage
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Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
Bob Beauprez
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In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
Earl Warren
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Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.
Art Linkletter
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
James Madison
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The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
Albert Einstein
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Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
Al Capp
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A good education is another name for happiness.
Ann Plato
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom
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To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.
Lucy Stone
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Alexander Pope
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A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
David Horowitz
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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
Heinrich Heine
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
Franz Kafka
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Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener
Arnold Schoenberg
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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.
Swami Vivekananda
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John W. Gardner
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In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Janet Jackson
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Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews
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Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Anatole France
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Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles Barkley
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
Plato
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.
William Cobbett
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Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Woody Allen
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
Niels Bohr
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Education is the vaccine for violence.
Edward James Olmos
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes de Mille
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
Bobby Scott
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The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie
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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold Rosenberg
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
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Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
Margaret Laurence
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Anatole France
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If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Brigham Young
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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
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I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
Paul Simon
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
Dennis Miller
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James
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Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert
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In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
Bobby Scott
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I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
Clark Kerr
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
John Ciardi
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser
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Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule
Donald A. Norman
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The public school has become the established church of secular society.
Ivan Illich
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
Karl Rove
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If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
Ignacio Estrada
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen
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The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
Thornton T. Munger
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Juvenal
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Lord Chesterfield
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The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Antisthenes
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Marian Anderson
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
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A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
Ann Plato
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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Latin Proverb
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If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Jim Rohn
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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
Robert M. Hutchins
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I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.
Bob Riley
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Good is not good, where better is expected
Thomas Fuller
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
Adam Weishaupt
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
Wilson Mizner
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I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
Annie Besant
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl T. Rowan
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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
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They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams
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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Lenny Bruce
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Education made us what we are.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Gilbert Highet
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If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
Richard Hofstadter
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Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
John Mason Brown
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Education is too important to be left solely to educators.
Francis Keppel
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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David Lodge
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But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly, is no. The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8 - which contains the general welfare clause - seeks to restrain federal government, not expand it.
Larry Elder
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College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
David Wood
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Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men —the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
Horace Mann
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I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
Tre Cool
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The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
Bob Riley
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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
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In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
Stanley Fish
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Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes
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An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.
John Constable
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Day
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In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.
William Feather
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If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.
Isocrates
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
J. William Fulbright
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla
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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
Anna Garlin Spencer
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
John Sterling
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Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
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Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Emma Goldman
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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
Bel Kaufman
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
Joshua Reynolds
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If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards
Rudyard Kipling
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She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
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For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael Caine
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Abigail Van Buren
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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Francis Bacon
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There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.
Albert Shanker
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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann
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It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
Albert Shanker
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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria Montessori
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
Maria Montessori
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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
John Holt
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
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My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
Winston Churchill
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Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
Kenneth Clark
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Wendell Phillips
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What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
James Stephens
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
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I was x years old in the year x2.
Augustus De Morgan
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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
Camille Paglia
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
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People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan
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People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
Northrop Frye
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Sydney J. Harris
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Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
Alexis Herman
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The jobs are there, but, particularly for working adults, traditional education just isnt going to cut it. New ways for training that meet the real-life requirements for adults are critically important.
Jerry Rubin
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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet
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People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
Johnny Carson
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
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Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
John Mason Brown
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Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
Augustine Birrell
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
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In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
John Naisbitt
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James
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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
Albert Einstein
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It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
Augustus De Morgan
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
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We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.
Bruce Brown
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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Lee Iacocca
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
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If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary
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The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
William Hazlitt
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As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.
Abraham Foxman
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Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
Joy Page
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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism
Colleen Wilcox
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Nature has always had more force than education.
Voltaire
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan
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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
Charles William Eliot
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No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.
Barry Long
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With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life.
Doc Childre
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
Edith Hamilton
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Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Arnold Edinborough
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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
Brander Matthews
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One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
Dennis Prager
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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
Josephine Tey
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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
Richard Livingstone
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A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Smiley Blanton
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To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims, this can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.
Ian Buruma
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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
Alfred Kazin
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Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.
Luther Burbank
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And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.
John Adams
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Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Louis Nizer
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
Abdoulaye Wade
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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
Winston Churchill
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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
George Iles
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On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.
Malcolm Bradbury
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle
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A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
Edgar Wallace
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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
Theodor Reik
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Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings
Lou Ann Walker
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To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
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To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.
Judith Crist
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
A. N. Wilson
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
Isaac D'Israeli
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I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.
Cary Elwes
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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
Anne Sullivan
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"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
George Ade
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Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile
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Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
John A. Hannah
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It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian
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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce
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As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.
James Agee
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We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.
Barbara Hershey
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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
John Adams
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Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Henry S. Canby
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I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke
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We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.
Ronald Reagan
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever
Chinese Proverbs
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The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people
Chinese Proverbs
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Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
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Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities that's training or instruction but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed
Thomas More
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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers
Jean Piaget
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
James Russell Lowell
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams
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Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
David P. Gardner
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins
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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Lee Simonson
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I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem.
Casey Affleck
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Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Aristotle
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.
Horace Mann
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America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.
Billy Graham
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No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.
Bertrand Russell
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Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
Thomas Fuller
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
William Haley
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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie
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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
John W. Gardner
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield
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The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach
Sophocles
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
William Cowper
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.
Jacques Barzun
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund Burke
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Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Erich Fromm
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Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch
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If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.
Carter G. Woodson
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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
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Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
David Suzuki
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Albert Einstein
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein
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We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.
Dirk Benedict
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
Ellen Key
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
G K Chesterton
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
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Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Maya Angelou
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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Joseph Addison
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
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The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Helen Keller
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The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance
Thomas Jefferson
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
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Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
John Wayne
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John Ruskin
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin
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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
Mark Twain
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We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
Frank Rizzo
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Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Hermann Hesse
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If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Robert F. Goheen
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Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Benjamin Disraeli
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
Elbert Hubbard
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
Gwendolyn Brooks