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Education Quotes
"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
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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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"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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"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."
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"Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system."
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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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"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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"Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities."
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"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."
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"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."
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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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"I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
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"The foundation of today's knowledge economy is the quality of its school leavers. We have now decided that the quality of learning outcomes will be the Government's primary objective. Accordingly, we will allocate an increasing share of resources under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan to quality. These funds will be used to promote local initiatives and innovations to improve learning outcomes."
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"You aren't supposed to learn that dedicated, committed effort can bring about significant changes of consciousness and understanding. That's a very dangerous idea, and therefore it's been wiped out of history."
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"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."
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"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
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"In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died."
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"I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month."
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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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"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students."
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"So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education."
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"My father had very little formal education."
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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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"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."
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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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"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
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