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I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'...

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Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.

Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...

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Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functionin...

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The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind...

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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

What grinds me the most is we're sending kids out into the world who don't know how to balance a che...

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Chris ColferStruck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They hav...

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Chris HedgesEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rathe...

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Chris HedgesEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman...

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Chris HedgesEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poet...

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It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and...

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My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on...

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You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand.""Of course you don't," said Brom impatient...

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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and we...

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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...

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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...

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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the paus...

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I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students athletics for t...

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It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

I did get a degree in special education.

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another b...

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Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and...

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Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not commun...

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ConfuciusThe Analects

In worthy teaching, all things are related.

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ConfuciusThe Analects

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educati...

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Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nat...

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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a t...

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My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs...

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The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning--every teacher should kn...

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This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck abo...

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Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: ...

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But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intel...

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Music education was always big for me. Ever since I was a young kid, I always said it was the reason...

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Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the ma...

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He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them ...

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How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (st...

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Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in d...

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Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn ...

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(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyo...

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I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree....

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Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of...

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How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellec...

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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of suc...

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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by...

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My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, s...

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True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literatu...

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There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal e...

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When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that,...

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David SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Day

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such becaus...

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if you do not share the universities' values, it could be a big mistake to send your children to col...

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When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

This question of grades being coercive, and of politics being inherent in teaching, applies not only...

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Someone asked me once at a talk why I so stress the positive with my students yet am such an unstint...

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There is a deeper point to be made here, however, having to do with the specificity of everything. O...

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When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday l...

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From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being s...

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Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, a...

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Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democrati...

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Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although a...

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But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochiali...

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It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay wit...

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As in the political sphere, the child is taught that he is free, a democrat, with a free will and a ...

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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is someth...

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I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable m...

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For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and what...

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What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women...

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Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher...

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Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher...

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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging o...

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Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor ...

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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend th...

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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what...

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The past has no power over the present moment.

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress ...

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Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which h...

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The giving of love is an education in itself.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...

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We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be...

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All of life is a constant education.

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Eleanor RooseveltThe Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when ...

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It might, or it might not. There's two opinons to go settling that point. But suppose it was truth d...

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By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result...

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At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished ...

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Elizabeth GilbertThe Signature of All Things