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

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The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

by Angela Merkel Found in: Education Quotes,
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn read more

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

by Chanakya Found in: Education Quotes,
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

by Anatole France Found in: Education Quotes,
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But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.

by William Blake Found in: Education Quotes,
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

by Russell Baker Found in: Education Quotes,
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

by Hannah Arendt Found in: Education Quotes,
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If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would read more

If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.

by John Malkovich 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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