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Education Quotes
"An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate information. A great teacher teaches how to stand up and turn every challenge into opportunities. An extraordinary teacher teaches how to be larger than life by following your own dreams, own goals and own instincts."
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"My education taught me a lot, but nothing I needed to learn."
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"Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week."
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"Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point."
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"Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective."
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"A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract."
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"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."
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"Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope."
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"I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program."
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"The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion."
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"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."
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"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."
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"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."
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"My family gave me the best in education."
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"Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days."
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"The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California."
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"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets."
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"My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met."
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"I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war."
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"It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility."
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"I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place."
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"Education is all a matter of building bridges."
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"Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing."
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"In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated."
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"Let people have an education and you can't stop them."
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"We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books."
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"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."
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"There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal."
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"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."
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"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory."
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"Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man."
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"Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh."
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"Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline."
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"Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools."
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"I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind."
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