education
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘education’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.” -Kofi Annan
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“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“You may be a redneck if… you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.” -Jeff Foxworthy
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“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.” -Thomas Huxley
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“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” -William S. Burroughs
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“My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.” -Ronnie James Dio
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“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.” -William Hazlitt
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“If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?” -Virginia Woolf
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“No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.” -Louis L’Amour
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“For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and…
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“Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.” -Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.” -John Dewey
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“‘Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.” -Alexander Pope
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“In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk – they are all part of the curriculum.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.” -Jane Austen
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“I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” -Marshall McLuhan
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“Segregation has no place in the education system.” -Richard Dawkins
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“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.” -Matthew Henry
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“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.” -Joseph Addison
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“The education of women is the best way to save the environment.” -E. O. Wilson
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“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” -Diogenes
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“What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.” -Stephen King
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“I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‘See, you did it yourself.’” -Alice Walker
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“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” -Jean Piaget
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“Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.” -James A. Baldwin
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“The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.” -John Ruskin
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“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.” -Lee Iacocca
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“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.” -Robert E. Lee
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“Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are – these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero…
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“Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.” -Ernest Istook
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“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” -Thomas Moore
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“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.” -Plutarch
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“There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.” -Salma Hayek
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“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.” -Horace
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“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.” -Woody Allen
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“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.” -John Locke
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“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.” -Aleister Crowley
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“Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.” -James Madison
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“Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.” -Harry S. Truman
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“If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that…
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“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.” -Victor Hugo
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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I’ve had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.” -Hillary Clinton
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“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.” -Karl Rove
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“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.” -William James
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“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.” -Francis Bacon
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“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.” -W. E. B. Du Bois
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“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.” -Booker T. Washington
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“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.” -Evan Esar
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“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.” -William Ralph Inge
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“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.” -Charles Stanley
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“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.” -George Orwell
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“Education is the cheap defense of nations.” -Edmund Burke
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“Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.” -Thomas Sowell
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“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.” -Plato
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“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” -Joseph Stalin
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“Nature has always had more force than education.” -Voltaire
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“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.” -Robert Kiyosaki
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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.” -Epictetus
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“I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright…
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“The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.
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“The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” -Isaac Asimov
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“Education is the best provision for old age.” -Aristotle
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“Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.” -Robert Frost
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“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.” -Will Rogers
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“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.” -Bill Cosby
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“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” -Frank Zappa
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“Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” -Napoleon Hill
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“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.” -Michael Jackson
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“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.” -Charles R. Swindoll
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“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.” -Mark Twain
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“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.” -John F. Kennedy
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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
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“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“The giving of love is an education in itself.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.” -Winston Churchill
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“The highest result of education is tolerance.” -Helen Keller
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“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” -Albert Einstein
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“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” -Malcolm Forbes
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“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.” -Joseph Brodsky
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“I know a lot of people think I’m dumb. Well, at least I ain’t no educated fool.” -Leon Spinks
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“Every educated person is a future enemy.” -Martin Bormann
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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
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“Our universities and museums are respected around the country.” -Jane Byrne
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“I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.” -Felix Bloch
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” -C. S. Lewis
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“I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.” -Dalai Lama
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“It is always in season for old men to learn.” -Aeschylus
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“America is the best half-educated country in the world.” -Nicholas M. Butler
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“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” -G. M. Trevelyan
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“If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.” -Abu Bakr
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“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.” -Abigail Van Buren
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“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.” -Harvey S. Firestone
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“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.” -Annie Dillard
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“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” -Ezra Pound
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“It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.” -Allen Klein
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“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.” -Al Green
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“To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.” -Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
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“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.” -Cornelius Vanderbilt
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“You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.” -Tammy Faye Bakker
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“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.” -Ernest Renan
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“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“Your library is your paradise.” -Desiderius Erasmus
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“To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.” -A. A. Milne
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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” -B. F. Skinner
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“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.” -Gail Godwin
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“Education is all a matter of building bridges.” -Ralph Ellison
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“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.” -Robert Anthony
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“If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.” -Galileo Galilei
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“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.” -George Santayana
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“An educated people can be easily governed.” -Frederick The Great
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“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.” -Alice Miller
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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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“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.” -Maynard James Keenan
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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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“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” -Clifford Stoll
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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
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“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.” -Alvin Toffler
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“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” -Ernest Dimnet
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“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.” -Carl Sagan
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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
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“Learn to think continentally.” -Alexander Hamilton
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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” -Abigail Adams
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“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.” -Peter Drucker
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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
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“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” -Carl Rogers
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“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” -Walt Disney
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“Change is the end result of all true learning.” -Leo Buscaglia
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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
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“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” -Edward Everett
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela
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“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” -Maya Angelou
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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” -George Washington Carver
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“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” -Chanakya
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