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    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.

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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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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

by Joseph Stalin Found in: Education Quotes,
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Education Quotes,
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man read more

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Education Quotes,
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If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

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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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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can read more

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.

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Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

by Charles Handy Found in: Education Quotes,
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