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They know enough who know how to learn.
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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
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Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.
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Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
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The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
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Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Proverbs 22:6]
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
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In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation.
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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There's a new tribunal now higher than God's --The educated man s!
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We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.
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Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
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The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt.
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Mentoring is all about people -- it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated -- concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.
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We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.
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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.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.
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He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
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Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.
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It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.
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Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.
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Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.
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The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
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Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
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On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
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There is no education like adversity.
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The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
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Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
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Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who will instruct their children religiously. To commit children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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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.
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
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Only the educated are free.
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
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