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    Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

by Carl Jung Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

by G. M. Trevelyan Found in: Education Quotes,
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Education Quotes,
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

by Mark Twain Found in: Education Quotes,
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Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both read more

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

by George Savile Found in: Education Quotes,
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.

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I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good read more

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con read more

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]

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