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• We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Philosophy, Learning

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.356, Psychology Press

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• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Wall, School, Men

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.220, Oxford University Press

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• There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Training, Principles

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• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.160, B&H Publishing Group

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• I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

  Lily Tomlin

  Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching

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• The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

  Stanley Fish

  Two Sides, Three, Purpose

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• A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

  Horace Mann

  Inspire, Height, Senior Graduation

  "Words for Teachers to Live By". Book by Mary Engelbreit, 2002.

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• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

  John Lubbock

  Teacher, Appreciation, Children

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

  Bill Vaughan

  Learning, Talking, People

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• The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Teacher, Appreciation

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Teacher, Jobs

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• Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

  Edmund Wilson

  Inspirational, Learning, Intelligence

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• From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

  Helen Hayes

  Laughter, Book, Feet

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

  William Raspberry

  Writing, Opportunity, College

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• Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

  Malcolm X

  Morning, World, This World

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The mere imparting of information is not education.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Information, Mere

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Teaching, Cutting

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

  Thomas Friedman

  Daughter, Mother, Jobs

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

  David Hockney

  Degrees, Certificates

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• Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Book, Thinking, Museums

  "Audrey Hepburn : A Bio-bibliography". Book by David Hofstede, 1994.

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• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

  Eartha Kitt

  Inspirational, Graduation, Teacher

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• All of life is a constant education.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspiring, Learning, Life Is

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.107, Da Capo Press

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• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

  Plutarch

  Teacher, Appreciation, Honesty

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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• The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Attention, Development

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

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• Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

  Philip Wylie

  Cities, Church, States

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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