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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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It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

by Desmond Tutu Found in: Education Quotes,
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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need read more

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

by John Dryden Found in: Education Quotes,
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Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training read more

Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

by Paul Chambers 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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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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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

by Joseph Stalin Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

by Ambrose Bierce Found in: Education Quotes,
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

by Robert E. Lee Found in: Education Quotes,
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