946 private quotes tagged education

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

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“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.” — George Orwell

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“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.” — Aristotle

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“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” — Victor Hugo

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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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“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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“Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.” — Harry S. Truman

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“There is no education like adversity.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” — Walt Disney

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

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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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“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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“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?” — Cesar Chavez

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

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

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