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    Claude Bernard
    “It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
    ― Claude Bernard
    tags: education
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    Edith Hamilton
    “It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated."

    [Saturday Evening Post, September 27, 1958]”
    ― Edith Hamilton
    tags: education
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    Diane Arbus
    “The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
    ― Diane Arbus, Revelations
    tags: education, intelligence, knowledge, life
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    Mark Twain
    “Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: education
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    May Sarton
    “Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: education, school
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: ambition, choke, dreams, education, intelligence, lethargy, palahniuk, sloth
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    Christine de Pizan
    “Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.”
    ― Christine de Pizan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies
    tags: education, knowledge, learning
    108 likes

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    “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
    ― Malcolm S. Forbes
    tags: education
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    Malcolm X
    “The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”
    ― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
    tags: activism, awareness, change, education, knowledge, revolution, truth
    270 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: education
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    Wilhelm Reich
    “Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”
    ― Wilhelm Reich
    tags: education, freedom, rights
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    Ambrose Bierce
    “Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
    tags: education
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods
    tags: children, education, humanity, love
    121 likes

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    Santosh Kalwar
    “By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.”
    ― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
    tags: education, inspirational, love
    112 likes

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    Greg Mortenson
    “When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.”
    ― Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
    tags: children, communication, education, parenting
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti, Education and the Significance of Life: Jiddu Krishnamurti on Freedom, Self-Understanding, and Mature Love
    tags: education, government, religion
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    You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world,
    “You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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    Will Durant
    “Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
    ― Will Durant
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: college, education, wisdom
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: conflicts, education, humane, knowledge, peace
    225 likes

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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “All of life is a constant education.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Wisdom Of Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: education
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    Baruch Spinoza
    “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
    ― Baruch Spinoza
    tags: education, free-thought, philosophy
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    Anton Chekhov
    “Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: anton-chekhov, books, education, learning, wisdom
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    Jacques Barzun
    “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”
    ― Jacques Barzun
    tags: education, school, teaching, tradition
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    James Madison
    “The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
    ― James Madison
    tags: education, freedom, intelligence, knowledge, liberty, media, science
    339 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: education, freedom-of-thought
    506 likes

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    George Clooney
    “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.”
    ― George Clooney
    tags: arrogance, education, ego, speech
    286 likes

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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
    841 likes

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    Jostein Gaarder
    “A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”
    ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
    tags: education, equality, women, women-s-rights
    380 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom
    1262 likes



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