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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.

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

by John Ruskin Found in: Education Quotes,
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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

by Wendell Phillips 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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Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.

by Robert Burton Found in: Education Quotes,
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It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical read more

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

by Jean Piaget Found in: Education Quotes,
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I've never let my school interfere with my education.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

by Mark Twain Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

by Robert Frost 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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