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Education

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Clive James

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Rogers, Carl

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Rosenberg, Harold

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

William James

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Weil, Simone

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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch

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All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

Porter, Sylvia

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A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Stockdale, James B.

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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Richards, Beah

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin

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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.

Anatole France

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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

Savage, Robert C.

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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

Wilde, Oscar

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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Socrates

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The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato

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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Rohn, Jim

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

Pound, Ezra

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

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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 am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Sullivan, Anne

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

Whitney, Orson F.

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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

Updike, John

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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

L. L. Henderson

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Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Zedong, Mao

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The world is run by C students.

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Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Young, Brigham

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An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

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If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says,trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Weeks, Claire

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

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True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.

Schelling, Felix E.

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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Stalin, Joseph