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    Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.

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Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a read more

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the
soldier, in full military array.

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Education is not received. It is achieved.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

by Chinese Proverbs Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Education Quotes,
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.

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It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

by Desmond Tutu Found in: Education Quotes,
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The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to read more

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scott We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. -Unknown.

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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

by Malcolm S. Forbes Found in: Education Quotes,
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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need read more

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.

by John Dryden Found in: Education Quotes,
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

by Michel De Montaigne Found in: Education Quotes,
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