946 private quotes tagged education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.” — Shannon Miller

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

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“Man is what he reads.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” — Will Durant

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“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.” — Noam Chomsky

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“Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.” — Bill Frist

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“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” — Clarence Thomas

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