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"As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families."
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"Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge."
"You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high."
"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."
"The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence."
"Every fiction has its base in fact."
"Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated."
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"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced."
"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."
"If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place."
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."
"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
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