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Education |
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| "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the
soul." |
| -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719),
English essayist, poet, statesman |
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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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| "There are obviously two
educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other
how to live." |
| -- James Truslow Adams (1878-1949),
American historian |
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| "Education is life itself."
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| -- John Dewey, American philospher |
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"Education
is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten." |
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B.
F. Skinner
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| "The only person who is educated is
the one who has learned how to learn... and change." |
| -- Carl Rogers (1902-87),
American psychologist, founder of humanistic psychology |
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“Academe, n.: An ancient
school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.:
A modern school where football is taught.”
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| -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
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| "The great aim of education is not
knowledge but action." |
| -- Herbert Spencer |
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| "If you think education is
expensive, try ignorance." |
| -- Derek Curtis Bok (b. 1930),
American educator, |
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“It is a thousand times
better to have common sense without education than to have education
without common sense.” |
| -- Robert G. Ingersoll |
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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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| “What does education often do?
It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” |
| -- Henry David Thoreau |
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“Education is the ability to
listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence.” |
| -- Robert Frost |
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| "I respect faith, but doubt is
what gets you an education." |
| -- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933) |
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| “It is the mark of an educated
mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” |
| -- Aristotle |
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| "The principle goal of
education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not
simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are
creative, inventive and discoverers." |
| -- Jean Piaget (1896-1980), Swiss
child psychologist, |
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“Education, n. That
which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their
lack of understanding.” |
| -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary |
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| "The supreme end of education is expert
discernment in all things-- the power to tell the good from the bad,
the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the
genuine to the bad and the counterfeit." |
| -- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84), British writer |
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“There is nothing so stupid as
the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.”
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| -- Will Rogers, American comic |
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| "The best education in the
world is that got by struggling to get a living." |
| -- Wendell Phillips (1811-84),
American abolitionist, |
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| "Formal education will make
you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." |
| -- Jim Rohn |
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| "Real education must
ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere
sheep-herding." |
| -- Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972),
American writer, poet |
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| "Teachers who understand education and
want to forward its noblest purposes understand the value of
inspiration in the teaching process. Inspiration is no substitute
for learning in the classroom. However, inspiration, added to
learning in the classroom, extends the educational experience
outwardly and unboundedly from the classroom in both space and time
with positive, logarithmic results." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "The essence of our effort
to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal
opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever
unique potential of mind, body, and spirit he or she possesses." |
| --
John Fischer
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| "Education
sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow." |
| -- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931),
Lebanese-born American mystic, poet, painter |
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| "Education
is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." |
| -- William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939), Irish writer |
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| "Education must provide the
opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich
and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his
own way." |
| -- Noam Chomsky (b. 1928), American
linguist |
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| "Perhaps the most valuable result of
all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do,
when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." |
| -- Aldous Leonard Huxley
(1894-1963), British writer |
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| "We shall
never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we
have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with
the education of the heart." |
| -- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832),
British writer |
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| "I never let schooling interfere with my education." |
| -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author, humorist |
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"There is no education like adversity." |
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--
Benjamin Disraeli
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"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge
them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience,
sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness,
and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we
never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
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-- Helen Keller |
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"Education is our passport to the future,
for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
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| -- Malcolm X
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| "Education is a progressive discovery of our own
ignorance."
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| -- Will Durant |
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| "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops."
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--
Henry Brooks Adams
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| "Genius without education is
like silver in the mine." |
| -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-90),
American statesman, writer, scientist |
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| "Education is the most
powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." |
| -- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b.
1918), South African Black political leader |
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"Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires
the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment."
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| -- Gail Sheehy |
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| "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets
you an education." |
| -- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) |
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| "The mediocre
teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
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--
William
Arthur Ward
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| "There is only one sound
method of moral education. It is teaching people to think." |
| --
Everett Dean Martin
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| "Education's purpose is to
replace an empty mind with an open one." |
| -- Malcolm Forbes |
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| "Try not to
have a good time...this is supposed to be educational." |
| -- Charles Monroe Schulz (b.
1922), American cartoonist |
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| "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be
those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and
relearn." |
| -- Alvin Toffler |
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| "In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference,
but rather they make all the difference." |
| -- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) |
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| "How is it that little
children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education
that does it." |
| -- Alexandre Dumas (1802-70),
French writer |
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| "Education is a better safeguard of
liberty than a standing army." |
| -- Edward Everett (1794-1865),
American clergyman, orator, educator, diplomat |
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| "School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human
existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant
ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common
decency." |
| -- Henry Louis Mencken
(1880-1956), American editor, critic |
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| "The education of the will is the object of our
existence." |
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist
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"We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall." |
| -- Pink Floyd (Waters/Gilmour) |
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| "Perhaps
the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself
to do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like
it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however
early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person
learn thoroughly." |
| -- Thomas Henry Huxley
(1825-95), British biologist |
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| "The
best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a
living." |
| -- Wendell Phillips (1811-84),
American abolitionist |
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| "Education is
learning to live, learning to love, learning
to learn, learning who it is who is doing the learning, loving to
learn." |
| -- Dr. Alan Altany, American Religion Professor |
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| "A
teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a
desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." |
| -- Horace Mann (1796-1859),
American educator |
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| "Nothing of importance is ever achieved
without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy
with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they
underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you
have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and
your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority." |
| -- Bertrand Russel (1872-1970), British
philosopher, mathematician |
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