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Education Quotes
"Education and wisdom will define your destination in life-- not wealth."
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"How your brain developed during your first five years has had an enormous impact on how well you learn and cope today. Again, the most important thing to keep in mind is that you are made of cells and cells change. So even if you didn't get the best start, you can have a fantastic finish."
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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
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"Education stimulates self-study."
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"Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end."
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"Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing."
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"The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside."
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"There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideaswith peers."
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"Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you."
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"Buying a book is not enough... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!"
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"We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children."
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"Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men."
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"It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition."
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"For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period."
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"I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while-just once in a while-there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!"
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"Education aims at solving problems, but some educators are problems to be solved."
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"Empower your children - Allow self-discovery and self-awareness (their own key to success), Facilitate an environment for learning through experience (practice of knowledge acquired). Remember, this exploration will take place whether you approve or not " it's inevitable, that's why YOU MUST be in charge of providing awareness and exposure to improve the quality of decisions made during exploration and experimentation."
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"I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."
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"Education is the manifestation and evolution of the knowledge that is already inherent within you."
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"Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels..."
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"Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults."
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"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."
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"Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward."
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"The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal."
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"I believe in always being open to learning more through exploration of everything available and following one's sense of curiosity, creativity, and playfulness."
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"Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it."
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"Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings."
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"One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land."
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"Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!"
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"But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees."
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"The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence."
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"Sex separation in the classroom leads to a bullshit socio-economic situation perpetuated by people with good intentions."
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