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  Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

  Margaret Mead

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspirational, Education, Ignorant

  "The price of libraries is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation" by Abigail Tarttelin, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.67, Broadway Books

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

  Josef Albers

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

  William Feather

  Education, Memories, Teaching

  "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

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• The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  " A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 134), 1891.

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• To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

  Muriel Spark

  Teacher, Soul, Pupils

  'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' (1961) ch. 2

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• Education is our passport to the future.

  Malcolm X

  Education, First Day Of School, Educator

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

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• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

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• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Education

  "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

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• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  A. A. Milne

  Graduation, Education, Memorable

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• Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Inspirational, Education, Attitude

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).

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• The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Sports, Education

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• The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

  Wendell Phillips

  Education, Wisdom, Children

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• The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

  Meladee McCarty

  Education, Kids, Wrestling

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• There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

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• Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Erich Fromm (2012). “The Sane Society”, p.337, Routledge

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• I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, School, Years

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

  Mark Van Doren

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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