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Thomas Moore

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Thomas Moore

Education

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Education goes beyond simply adding more facts or skills to a person's mind, which is more like training. Instead, it involves uncovering and developing the potential or understanding that already exists within a person, like revealing a seed growing into a plant.

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