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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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• Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

  Al MacInnis

  Self Confidence, Independence, Steps

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• Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

  Thomas Huxley

  Teaching, Law, Instruction

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Hard Work, Thinking

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mignon McCarthy (1990). “Kareem”, Random House Incorporated

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• If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

  Robert F. Goheen

  Graduation, Learning, College

  1961 Baccalaureate address. Reported in Time magazine, 23 Jun.

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• "The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"

  Michel Legrand

  Life And Love, Realizing, Inspirational Learning

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• I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

  Thomas A. Edison

  School, Class, Feet

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• Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Brain, Rooms

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.300

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• The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

  Mirabeau B. Lamar

  Money, Men, Mind

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• If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.

  Ivan Stang

  Reality, House, Brain

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• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teaching, Learning, School

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

  James Madison

  Light, People, Mind

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Philosophy, Teaching, Learning

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Lost Love, Divorce, People

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2010). “Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity”, p.20, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

  William Hazlitt

  Learning, May, Fool

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1092, Delphi Classics

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• The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Believe, School

  "The Arts and the Creation of Mind". Book by Elliot W. Eisner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

  Ludacris

  Important, Music Business

  "Ludacris says 'education is extremely important' for music career" by Mawuse Ziegbe, www.mtv.com. September 25, 2010.

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• Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Learning, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 13, 2017

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• Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Learned Person, Youth, Teachers Day

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• The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

  David Hockney

  People, Brain, Degrees

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• Education ought everywhere to be religious education. At the same time, parents are farther bound to employ no instructors who will not educate their children religiously. To commit our children to the care of irreligious persons, is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Religious, Children, Parent

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• A child miseducated is a child lost.

  John F. Kennedy

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

  John Stuart Mill

  Children, Teaching, Diversity

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• There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Robert Eastaway

  Math, Government, Self

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