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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
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.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con read more
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every read more
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
