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    Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

by Anatole France Found in: Education Quotes,
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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Education Quotes,
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

by A. A. Milne Found in: Education Quotes,
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Nature has always had more force than education.

Nature has always had more force than education.

by Francois Voltaire Found in: Education Quotes,
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You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Education Quotes,
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.

by Edith Hamilton 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.

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If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

by Tom Robbins Found in: Education Quotes,
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