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    It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
    that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
    books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
    not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
    something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

by Galileo Galilei Found in: Education Quotes,
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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All real education is the architecture of the soul.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

by William J. Bennett Found in: Education Quotes,
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a read more

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

by Sam Houston Found in: Education Quotes,
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The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

by Liberty Hyde Found in: Education Quotes,
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Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."

Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."

by Matthew Arnold Found in: Education Quotes,
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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The world is run by C students.

The world is run by C students.

by Anon. Found in: Education Quotes,
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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Education Quotes,
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