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Grayson Kirk
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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 stru
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Joseph Addison
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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue
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Rene Descartes
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Ed Koch
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http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/jfk/publicpapers/1961/jfk46_61.html
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Federico Mayor
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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destru
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John Henry Newman
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As we approach the new millennium, we see how much remains to be done to give our young and future generations a better world to live in: a more peaceful society with a healthier, cleaner environment and a pattern of sustainable development which seeks to
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Jean Piaget
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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the
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William W. Purkey
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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and
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William W. Purkey
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???My 12 years as a public school student where I keenly felt the inviting and disinviting signals sent to me by the schools, my years as a public school teacher in a wonderful school that taught me about the human side of teaching, and my role as a univers
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Sir Walter Scott
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(Purkey credits his leadership characteristics to these threee events) http://www.elmle.org/CopenhagenSpeakers.htm
http://www.invitationaleducation.net/
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B. F. Skinner
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A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We
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Mark Twain
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Adapted from an L.L. Bean Co. poster: What is a customer? by J. M. Eaten
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William Butler Yeats
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http://www.twainquotes.com , the best place for Mark Twain quotes, makes the statement about the source for this quote.
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Mark Twain
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
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Henry David Thoreau
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Muriel Spark
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
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George Santayana
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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Carl Rogers
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
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Will Rogers
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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Will Rogers
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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Ernest Renan
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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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Ezra Pound
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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A. A. Milne
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Al McGuire
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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Grayson Kirk
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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.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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Heinrich Heine
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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Sydney J. Harris
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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John W. Gardner
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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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Erich Fromm
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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Will Durant
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Tallulah Bankhead
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Russell Baker
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
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Aristotle
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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Alan Simpson
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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
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Henry Anatole Grunwald
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Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.
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Erich Fromm
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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Paul E. Gray
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The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
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David P Gardner
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Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
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Unknown
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Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune.
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Paul Karl Feyerabend
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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
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John W. Gardner
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
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Muriel Spark
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
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William John Bennett
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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Beah Richards
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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for So you can make a bigger salary than other people
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Pete Seeger
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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
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Jim Rohn
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Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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A Bartlett Giamatti
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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Robert Hutchins
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We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
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Will Durant
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Robert E. Lee
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
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The giving of love is an education in itself.
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Wendell Phillips
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What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
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Will Durant
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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John Ray
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http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/tt8.html
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Mark Twain
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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Hellen Keller
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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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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Chuang-tzu
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
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Wilson Mizner
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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H. G. Wells
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Alexandre Dumas
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
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Wendell Phillips
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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Allan Bloom
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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Aristotle
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Albert Einstein
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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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Aristotle
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Mark Twain
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Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
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Anatole France
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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 differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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Charles F. Kettering
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
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Joseph Addison
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
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Albert Einstein
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
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William Ralph Inge
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The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
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Sydney J. Harris
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Mark Twain
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898
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Victor Hugo
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Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
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George Peabody
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Education a debt due from present to future generations.
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Sir Walter Scott
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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears t
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Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
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Education is life itself.
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If you haven't much education you must use your brain.
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
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Education is the best provision for old age.
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Education is not received. It is achieved.
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
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You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!
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Don't let school interfere with your education.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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The end of all education should surely be service to others.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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Successful education is always a two-way street.
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Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
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A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.
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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education.
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
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Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
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