Quotes and sayings about tag  education

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

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In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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• Knowledge

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

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• Education

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

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• Knowledge

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

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• Inspirational

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

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• Inspirational

By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.

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Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

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• Life

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

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Progress just means bad things happen faster.

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• Life

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

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Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

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A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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

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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

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• Wisdom

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained

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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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