Quotes and sayings about tag  education

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown.

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• Education

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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• Education

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

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• Inspirational

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

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• Inspirational

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

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• Education

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

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• Humor

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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• Education

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

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• Education

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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• Education

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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• Education

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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• Education

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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• Education