Education Quotes

• "I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."
  By: Tallulah Bankhead
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• "Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."
  By: Szasz, Thomas
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• "It is only the ignorant who despise education."
  By: Syrus, Publilius
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• "Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
  By: Sydney J. Harris
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• "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
  By: Sydney J. Harris
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• "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
  By: Sullivan, Anne
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• "Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness."
  By: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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• "A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear."
  By: Stockdale, James B.
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• "The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that."
  By: Sterling, John
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• "Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
  By: Stalin, Joseph
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• "To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion."
  By: Spark, Muriel
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• "An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all."
  By: Socrates
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• "Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men."
  By: Socrates
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• "All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind."
  By: Smith, Logan Pearsall
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• "Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."
  By: Smith, Lillian
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• "What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."
  By: Shaw, George Bernard
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