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“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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“What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
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“Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.”
Robert C. Savage Quotes |
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“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
G. M. Trevelyan Quotes |
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“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.”
Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes |
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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.”
Anatole France Quotes |
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“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.”
Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
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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. -Sir William Haley.”
Sir William Haley Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.”
Carl R. Rogers Quotes |
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“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.”
Lord Chesterfield Quotes |
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“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.”
Alec Bourne Quotes |
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“More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.”
Jonathan Kozol Quotes |
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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
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“You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.”
Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.”
Henry Adams Quotes |
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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.”
Robert Frost Quotes |
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“Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach.”
Richard Bach Quotes |
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“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”
Ezra Pound Quotes |
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