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    Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.

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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on read more

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

by Aristotle Found in: Education Quotes,
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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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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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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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Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

by Anthony J. D'angelo Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

by Mark Twain Found in: Education Quotes,
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I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get read more

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

by Wynton Marsalis Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do read more

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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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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