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Education Quotes
"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
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"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects."
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"There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important."
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"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."
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"As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all."
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"Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known."
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"I didn't get to see Predator until halfway through shooting. It was great to get an education while I was shooting because it made me excited to be part of this legacy."
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"Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn."
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"I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute."
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"To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills."
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"Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included."
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"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy."
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"I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel."
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"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge."
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"Education in the form of knowledge and wisdom are only as powerful as how we use them in our daily lives."
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"It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue."
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship tense and anxious groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began only I was without compass or sounding line and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul and rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour."
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
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"One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."
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"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
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"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned."
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"It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was different for Jaja and me. We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't."
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"There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable."
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"It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans."
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"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."
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"Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education."
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"Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination."
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"Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds."
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"Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development."
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"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education."
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