946 private quotes tagged education

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” — B. F. Skinner

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“Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.” — Charles Barkley

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“Responsibility educates.” — Wendell Phillips

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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.” — Al McGuire

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“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” — G. M. Trevelyan

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“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.” — Abigail Van Buren

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“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.” — Tallulah Bankhead

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“An educated people can be easily governed.” — Frederick The Great

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“If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.” — Abu Bakr

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“It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.” — Allen Klein

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“I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.” — Al Green

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“Every educated person is a future enemy.” — Martin Bormann

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“Man is what he reads.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.” — Cornelius Vanderbilt

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“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“Our universities and museums are respected around the country.” — Jane Byrne

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“To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.” — Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

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“I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.” — Leon Spinks

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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.” — Muriel Spark

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“The willingness to learn new skills is very high.” — Angela Merkel

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“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.” — Ezra Pound

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“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.” — Karl Kraus

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“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X

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