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    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
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    Mark Twain
    “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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    “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
    ― Steven Spielberg
    tags: education, reading
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    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    ― Plato
    tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy
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    Jim Henson
    “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
    ― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
    tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
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    Bill Watterson
    “You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: calvin-and-hobbes, comic, education, funny, school
    1202 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: education, libraries, self-education
    1081 likes

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  • #8
    Henry Ford
    “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: education, lifelong-learning
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    Victor Hugo
    “He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: education
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: children, education
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    John Rogers
    “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

    [Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
    ― John Rogers
    tags: atlas-shrugged, ayn-rand, books, children-s-literature, education, fantasy, jrr-tolkien, life-changing, lord-of-the-rings, reading, real-world
    1101 likes

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    Bill Watterson
    “I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
    tags: education
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    William Shakespeare
    “O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: classics, education
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    Frank Herbert
    “Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: education, intelligence, wisdom
    674 likes

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    Noam Chomsky
    “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    tags: education, homeschooling, ignorance, public-education
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    Frank Zappa
    “Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: education, high-school, self-education
    527 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “All I have learned, I learned from books.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: books, education, lifelong-learning, lincoln, reading, self-education
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: censorship, education, free-speech, paraphrased
    471 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: education, humor
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
    tags: america, big-bang, big-bang-theory, church-and-state, creation, creationism, dinosaurs, education, evolution, first-amendment, freedom, freedom-of-religion, intelligent-design, letters, literacy, new-jersey, new-york-times, noah-s-ark, religion, scientific-literacy, teachers, teaching
    399 likes

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    John Adams
    “I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
    ― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
    tags: education, lifelong-learning, reading
    342 likes

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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
    tags: advice, children, education, friendship, guidance, independence, parenthood
    246 likes



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