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    It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
    that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
    books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
    not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
    something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which read more

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

by James Madison Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

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Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

by Anthony J. D'angelo Found in: Education Quotes,
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It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has read more

It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.

by Sebastian Coe Found in: Education Quotes,
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The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to read more

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.

by Mrs. Anna Jameson Found in: Education Quotes,
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.

by Robert F. Goheen Found in: Education Quotes,
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

by Mark Twain Found in: Education Quotes,
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