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"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts."
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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."
"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."
"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."
"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."
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"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education."
"Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first."
"In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help."
"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts."
"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced."
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
"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."
"Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy."
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