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Will Durant

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

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"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"

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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."

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"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."

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"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."

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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."

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"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."

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Amber Hurdle

"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."

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"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"

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"Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own."

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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

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"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
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"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."
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"We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries."
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"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."
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