946 private quotes tagged education

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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