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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 is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

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Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

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While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela read more

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt.

by Angela Schwindt 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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

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Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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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.

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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

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Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a read more

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the
soldier, in full military array.

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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

by Horace Mann Found in: Education Quotes,
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