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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• Education is the movement from darkness to light.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspirational, Education, Light

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Teacher, Philosophy

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• Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

  Brigham Young

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

  Confucius

  Education, Homeschooling, Certain Knowledge

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• Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  T.H. WHITE (1958). “THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING”

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• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Funny, Education, Teacher

  "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

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• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.

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• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

  William Ralph Inge

  Education, Knowledge, Facts

  Education (1917) ch. 2

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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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• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

  Sympathy, Education, Children

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Freedom, War

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

  Louis L'Amour

  Mind, Way, Conditioning

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Californios”, p.51, Bantam

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• What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wisdom, Hands, People

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• I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

  Peter Ustinov

  Education, Years, Process

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• What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

  Peter Ustinov

  Learning, Process, Persons

  Peter Ustinov (2011). “Dear Me”, p.203, Random House

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