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Education Quotes
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Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Broughan
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
--George Bernard Shaw
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant
Good teachers are those who know how little they know. Bad teachers are those who think they know more than they don't know.
- R. Verdi
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Ambrose Bierce
Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively.
- R.D. Clyde
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
- Sir Claus Moser
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.
- Source Unknown
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed
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