Quotes and sayings about tag  education

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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Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

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

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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

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People think of education as something they can finish.

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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

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