Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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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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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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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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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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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. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Grayson Kirk
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Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
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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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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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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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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
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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 rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
Plato
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne
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Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Paul Chambers
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