Real Education Quotes

• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Dream, Teacher

  Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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• What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Humanity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.146, A&C Black

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• The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Real, Responsibility, Goal

  John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”

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• The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

  Max Beerbohm

  Education, Real, Thinking

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• That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

  Satish Kumar

  Real, Buddhism, India

  "Walking The World For Peace". Interview with Robert Gilman, www.context.org.

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• A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Library, Rooms

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• Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Together, Facts

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• Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

  Sai Baba

  Real, Educational, Challenges

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• Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Drawing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.138, A&C Black

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• Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

  Ezra Pound

  Education, Real, Learning

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

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• Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

  Aaron Swartz

  Real, Understanding, Curriculum

  "The Real Problem With Waiting for 'Superman'" by Aaron Swartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Education, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.185, Rajpal & Sons

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• A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Real

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.167, 谷月社

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• All real education is the architecture of the soul.

  William Bennett

  Education, Real, Soul

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• Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

  Cesar Chavez

  Education, Real, Book

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• A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.

  Gilbert Murray

  Horse, Real, Men

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• There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

  Allan Bloom

  Real, Doe, Needs

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

  Ezra Pound

  Teacher, Real, Ignorance

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

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• I’ve loved the whole process. From previews to rehearsals, I’m in the best company. I’ve done one West End show before this but the excitement here…it’s incredible. It’s been a real education working on this, I don’t feel worthy. The role is over the top, bold and ridiculous.

  Rupert Grint

  Real, Roles, Done

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• Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Real, Mean

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• I was such a huge fan of Harry Potter books. That's how I got into it. I had never really thought about acting or a career. I just wanted to be Ron, really. It was a very unusual introduction into the industry, and we learned so much. It's been a real education and an evolution. I really, really enjoy this.

  Rupert Grint

  Real, Book, Careers

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• Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

  Nancy Astor

  Education, Teacher, Real

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• The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.

  Arto Lindsay

  Real, Guitar, Being Different

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• I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

  Morgan Brittany

  New York, Real, Moving

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