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

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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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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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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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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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