"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 know and what you don't."

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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 know and what you don't."

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"Every child must be taught how to think, read and write."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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

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"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."

Claude Chabrol, French Director

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"I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education."

Clyde Tombaugh, American Scientist

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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

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"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"Segregation shaped me education liberated me."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me."

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"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

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"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool."

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"Every child must be taught how to think, read and write."

"Feeding the poor will not eradicate poverty, but feeding the mind with true education will."

"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."

"Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."

"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."

"I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education."

"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

"Segregation shaped me education liberated me."

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"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."

"Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream."

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me."

"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool."