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Education Quotes
"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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"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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"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
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"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next."
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"A totally new kind of education is needed in the world. The person who is born to be a poet is proving himself stupid in mathematics and the person who could have been a great mathematician is just cramming history and feeling lost. Everything is topsy-turvy because education is not according to your nature: it does not pay any respect to the individual. It forces everybody into a certain pattern."
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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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"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."
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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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"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
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"Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans."
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"Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities."
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"School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan."
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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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"So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education."
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"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education."
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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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"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
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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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"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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"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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"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
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"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America."
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"My father had very little formal education."
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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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"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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