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    I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.

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You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Education Quotes,
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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

by Anthony J. D'angelo 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 William Blake Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every read more

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.

by William Haley 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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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

by Laertius Diogenes Found in: Education Quotes,
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

by R.s. Ingersoll Found in: Education Quotes,
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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, read more

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.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

by Will Durant Found in: Education Quotes,
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