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    We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

by Elbert Hubbard Found in: Education Quotes,
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The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance read more

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others

by Grayson Kirk Found in: Education Quotes,
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war read more

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

by Mahatma Gandhi Found in: Education Quotes,
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.

by Henry Adams Found in: Education Quotes,
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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it read more

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

by Muriel Spark Found in: Education Quotes,
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It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has read more

It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.

by Sebastian Coe Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

by Lord Henry Brougham Found in: Education Quotes,
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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