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Education Quotes
"So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education."
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"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
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"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
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"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
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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."
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"If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting."
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"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed."
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"Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn."
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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
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"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
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"Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers."
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"While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally."
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"As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it."
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"Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education."
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"Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities."
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"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."
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"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
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"Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it."
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"Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost."
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"A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies."
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"I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy."
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"Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up."
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"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
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"It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel."
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"Read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism."
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"The art of not reading is a very important one. [. . .] [Y]ou should remember that he who writes for fools always find a large public. " A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: For life is short."
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"Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education."
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"But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education."
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"I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others."
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"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."
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"A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress upon you that you possess the skills to discover your own."
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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
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