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    We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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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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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

by Malcolm S. Forbes Found in: Education Quotes,
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The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use read more

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

by Tryon Edwards Found in: Education Quotes,
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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to read more

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.

by Mrs. Anna Jameson Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

by Carl Rogers Found in: Education Quotes,
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed read more

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

by Chinese Proverbs Found in: Education Quotes,
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The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance read more

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

by Grayson Kirk Found in: Education Quotes,
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

by Ezra Loomis Pound Found in: Education Quotes,
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