946 private quotes tagged education

“Education is the movement from darkness to light.” — Allan Bloom

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“I never let schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain

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“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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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“Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.” — Kerry Washington

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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.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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“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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“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“The education of women is the best way to save the environment.” — E. O. Wilson

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

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

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“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.” — Emma Goldman

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“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.” — Desmond Tutu

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“All real education is the architecture of the soul.” — William Bennett

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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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“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver

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“Man is what he reads.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” — Horace Mann

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“Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.” — John Ruskin

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