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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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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

by Pauline Phillips Found in: Education Quotes,
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to read more

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.

by Mrs. Anna Jameson Found in: Education Quotes,
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early read more

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.

by Plato Found in: Education Quotes,
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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be read more

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.

by Robert Frost Found in: Education Quotes,
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed read more

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

by Chinese Proverbs Found in: Education Quotes,
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At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

by Henry Cavill Found in: Education Quotes,
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