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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 know and what you don't.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math read more
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
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.
If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.
If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
