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Education Quotes
"Talking to people is the most educational thing I know."
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"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."
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"Learn how to learn...then start learning."
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"Education is the transportation of the mind."
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"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."
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"...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time."
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"The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. 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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"Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened."
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"Experience is a necessary education."
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"The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books."
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"Education is the use of knowledge which brings about development and impact many lives."
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"Why do we teach our children to hate others when there are so many options to love? Why do we teach hate when kindness, compassion, tolerance, and harmony add such beauty to life?"
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"Education is the best wealth that you can acquire in life. No one can steal it when you are alive."
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"Obciously, it ought to be the oldest things that are taught to the youngest people; the assured and experienced truths that are put first to the baby. But in a school today the baby has to submit to a system that is younger than himself."
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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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"Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement."
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"Assuming that all 'unschooled' people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm."
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"We may not have the choice to be rich or comfortable, but whatever happens; we do always have the choice to be an educated person."
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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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"You professors, what do you teach your students? Do you instil in them the spirit of possession?"
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