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Education Quotes
"I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance."
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"What should they know of England who only England know?"
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"Stupid English.""English isn't stupid," I say."Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me.""Why not?""He says lunch isn't a subject."I glance at him. "It isn't.""Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?"
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"I would live to study not study to live."
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"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
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"Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them, digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be 'much not many."
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"To hear is one thing, to know is another."
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"Dreamers and thinkers believe in innovative ideas and they become the greatest students of all time."
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"You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end."
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"When I learn the meaning of a word, I know the word; but when I say to myself, 'I know the word,' there comes a reflection of the word back from the mirror of my mind, making a second impression, and after that I am at least not so likely to forget it..."When, then, I think about the impression that the word makes upon me, how it is affecting me with the knowledge of itself, then I am what I should call self-conscious of the word-conscious not only that I know the word, but that I know the phenomena of knowing the word-conscious of what I am as regards my knowing of the word."
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"I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works."
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"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."
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"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."
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"Life is a curriculum unique to every student."
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"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
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"A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing."
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"Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians' heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus."
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"Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average."
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"Knowledge is a priceless gift of enlightenment."
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"I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room."
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"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do what he wants it to do. And a piano is just a piano. It's made out of so much wood and wires and little hammers and big ones, and ivory. While there's only so much you can do with it, the only way to find this out is to try; to try and make it do everything."
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"Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend."
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"The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations."
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"Learning is the chief goal to those who aim high in life."
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"Luka fisik memang diperlukan saat mempelajari sesuatu yang penting dalam hidup."
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"School is a hospital where people recover from ignorance, life is a hospital where people recuperate from arrogance."
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"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."
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"If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?"
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"Authority, reason, experience; on these three, mixed in varying proportions all our knowledge depends."
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"Education is a process of unlearning and learning."
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"Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in a scientifically literate democracy, and even suggests a statement of purpose for it (a surprisingly elusive principle in higher education today). The goal of education is to make up for the shortcomings in our instinctive ways of thinking about the physical and social world. And education is likely to succeed not by trying to implant abstract statements in empty minds but by taking the mental models that are our standard equipment, applying them to new subjects in selective analogies, and assembling them into new and more sophisticated combinations."
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"I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy."
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"Invest in studies which encourages you to invest in people."
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"I didn't hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it-and what it would be used to justify?)"
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"The ultimate goal of education is to gain wisdom from experiences."
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