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    It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

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Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

by Benjamin Disraeli Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

by Robert Frost Found in: Education Quotes,
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If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.

If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.

by Unknown 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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Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that read more

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at
all.

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I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need read more

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.

by John Dryden Found in: Education Quotes,
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

by John Ruskin Found in: Education Quotes,
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in read more

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Education Quotes,
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