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    We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Education Quotes,
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

by Robert E. Lee Found in: Education Quotes,
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The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

by Paul E. Gray Found in: Education Quotes,
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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

by Richard Livingstone Found in: Education Quotes,
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

by George Santayana Found in: Education Quotes,
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

by Russell Baker Found in: Education Quotes,
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

by Will Rogers Found in: Education Quotes,
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

by Malcolm X Found in: Education Quotes,
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