Education Quotes

• "Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
  By: Plato
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• "The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers."
  By: Piaget, Jean
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• "One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day."
  By: Peter Brodie
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• "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."
  By: Pete Seeger
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• "Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
  By: Pete Seeger
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• "Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue."
  By: Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi
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• "Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future."
  By: Paglia, Camille
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• "If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself … you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days."
  By: Oscar Wilde The Artist as Critic
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• "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education."
  By: O'Shea
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• "Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods."
  By: Neil Postman
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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."
  By: Nancy Astor
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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: Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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• "Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
  By: Moser, Sir Claus
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• "The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read."
  By: More, Hannah
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• "If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
  By: Montessori, Maria
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