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“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
Helen Keller Quotes |
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“Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve”
Roger Lewin Quotes |
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“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.”
Charles Handy Quotes |
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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life”
Plato Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others”
Grayson Kirk Quotes |
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“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”
Tom Brokaw Quotes |
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“Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.”
George Savile Quotes |
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“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
Juvenal Quotes |
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“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
John Dewey Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Literature and Dogma (preface)
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“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Of Studies
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“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation
of character.”
Hosea Ballou Quotes Source: Sermons, a manuscript
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“I am verily a man which am a Jew, born is Tarsus, a city in
Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and
taught according to the perfect manner of the fathers, and was
zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.”
Bible Quotes Source: Acts (ch. XXII, v. 3)
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“Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.”
Tony Blair Quotes Source: in a speech at the Labour Party Conference
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“But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.”
William Blake Quotes Source: The Schoolboy (st. 2)
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“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
William Blake Quotes Source: The Schoolboy (st. 2)
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“Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the
soldier, in full military array.”
Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux) Quotes Source: in a speech
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“Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, mem. I, 1)
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“"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."”
Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson) Quotes Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ch. X)
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“Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (II, 10)
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“To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes Source: Heretics
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“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Divinatione (II, 2)
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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 Quotes Source: Progress of Error (l. 410)
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