"An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind."

Education, Mind, Will

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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Education, School, Creativity, Irony, Discipline

"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Education, Wisdom, Learning, Inspirational, Mind

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Education, Knowledge, Learning, Curiosity, Awareness

"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"

Stephen King, American Author

Education, Truth, Wisdom, Happiness, Regret

"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

Stephen King, American Author

Education, Reading, Writing, Expectation, Truth

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Education, Mother, People, College, Ignorance

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Education, Respect, Choice, Key

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Education, Virtue, Children, First, Importance

"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Education, Teaching, Knowledge, Secrets, Learning

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Education, History, Race

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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

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"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."

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"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

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"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."

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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."

"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

"Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

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"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil."

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."

"Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest."

"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."