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“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
Laertius Diogenes Quotes Source: according to Stobaeus
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“The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.”
Isaac D'Israeli Quotes Source: Literary Character (ch. VI)
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“By education most have been misled.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389)
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“My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the other.”
James Abram Garfield Quotes Source: tradition has it that he used the phrase at a New York Alumni Dinner
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“Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,”
John Gay Quotes Source: The Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and the Farmer--To a Mother (l. 9)
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“Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at
all.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (l. 1)
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“The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.”
Mrs. Anna Jameson Quotes Source: Education--Winter Studies and Summer Rambles
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“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!”
Andy McIntyre Quotes |
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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.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes |
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“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes |
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“The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.”
Bishop Mandell Creighton Quotes |
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“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.”
Peter F. Drucker Quotes |
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“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
Edward Everett Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
Malcolm S. Forbes Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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