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    The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

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More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on read more

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.

by Jonathan Kozol Found in: Education Quotes,
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

by Isaac D'israeli Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one

by Bel Kaufman Found in: Education Quotes,
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The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

by Angela Merkel Found in: Education Quotes,
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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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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

by Brander Matthews Found in: Education Quotes,
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If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you read more

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people

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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any read more

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

by Chuck Palahniuk Found in: Education Quotes,
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

by George Santayana Found in: Education Quotes,
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