Real Education Quotes - Page 2

• The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

  Andre Gide

  Education, Real

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• The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Simple, Sight

  "This Is Water". David Foster Wallace's commencement speech at Kenyon College, www.youtube.com. May 21, 2005.

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• I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.

  James D'arcy

  Real, War, Reading

  "‘Spotlight’s Brian d’Arcy James On Journalism Versus Acting & Playing A Nerd – Q&A". Interview with Jeremy Gerard, deadline.com. November 3, 2015.

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• I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Real, Educational

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

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• I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, School, Library

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.54, Bantam

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• I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

  Alan Parsons

  Real, High Fidelity, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I want to clarify that one doesn't need to be a scientist or have fancy college degrees to know the truth about the health of our children, our communities, and the planet. Community members generally know far more about the health of their own communities than visiting "experts," yet that knowledge is often discredited because of another story that we tell ourselves: "real" education happens [only] in the halls of universities.

  Annie Leonard

  Children, Real, College

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