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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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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

by Timothy Leary Found in: Education Quotes,
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war read more

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

by Mahatma Gandhi 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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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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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

by Aristotle Found in: Education Quotes,
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

by Robert M. Maciver Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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