946 private quotes tagged education

“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.” — H. G. Wells

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“The key to education is the experience of beauty.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.” — Anatole France

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“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.” — Robert Frost

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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” — Plato

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

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“History is a race between education and catastrophe.” — H. G. Wells

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“In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The giving of love is an education in itself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” — Albert Einstein

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“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” — Thomas Moore

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“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.” — Anatole France

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“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.” — Alexander Pope

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“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” — Mark Twain

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“Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.” — James Madison

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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.” — Edsger Dijkstra

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“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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