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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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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

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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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If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.

If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.

by Unknown Found in: Education Quotes,
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

by Anatole France Found in: Education Quotes,
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Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.

by Tony Blair Found in: Education Quotes,
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

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Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.

by Frank Crane Found in: Education Quotes,
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

by Michel De Montaigne Found in: Education Quotes,
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