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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 Quotes |
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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”
Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
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“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Victor Hugo Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
Robert M. Hutchins Quotes |
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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 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. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.”
Grayson Kirk Quotes |
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“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
Roger Lewin Quotes |
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“A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.”
Brander Matthews Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 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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“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
Joseph Stalin Quotes |
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“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.”
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
Alec Bourne Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
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“Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.”
Leonard L. Levinson Quotes |
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“It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“Those who trust us educate us.”
George Eliot Quotes |
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“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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