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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Your library is your paradise.
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in char…
Education is the transmission of civilization.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows…
An educated people can be easily governed.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Learn to think continentally.