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• I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Educational, Institutions, Educated

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• Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Trying, Violence, Sincerity

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• I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Thinking, Growth

  "Managing in a Time of Great Change". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1995.

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• The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.

  Linda Lantieri

  Education, Mean, People

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• An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want

  Bob Proctor

  Mind, Want, Faculty

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 21, 2017

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• Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Clouds, Light

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• I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Blessed, Play, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Dad, Book, Home

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• While I did complete high school, I would have to say that it was by the skin of my teeth. My education ever since then has been one that I got "on the job" and I consider myself a very well-educated person at this point!

  Lewis Schiff

  Jobs, School, Skins

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Greek, Educated, Persons

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• An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

  Napoleon Hill

  Educated, Needed, Persons

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• No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Fun, Believe

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• Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy.

  Martin Bormann

  Enemy, Danger, Produce

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• For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Europe, Omnipotence, Competition

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• I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

  Lisa Leslie

  Basketball, Educated, Persons

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• Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as an educated person. You are either learning or you are not. In today's world, it is vitally important that you see the truth in Eric Hoffer's statement. The win or loss, which is waiting in the wings for every person, is enormous. You get to choose which you will experience.

  Bob Proctor

  Life, Motivational, Loss

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• The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Education, Humanity, Mastery

  "Biographical" by Joseph Stiglitz for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm an educated person means that I can't be on that convoy. I don't want to be on it. I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Choices, Darkness

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough; the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.

  Edith Hamilton

  Education, Interesting, Stressed

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• If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

  Peter Drucker

  Knights, Age, Embodiment

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• I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, Two, Degrees

  Interview with Spencer Michels in "The NewsHour" on PBS, May 2, 2007.

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• Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

  Novalis

  Children, Childhood, Earth

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.31, SUNY Press

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• It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

  Jeffrey Burton Russell

  Civilization, Earth, Firsts

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• The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.

  John Keegan

  Writing, People, History

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• If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Downtown, Agendas, Four

  "Who Runs America?". Interview with Adrian Zupp, chomsky.info. April 1-8, 1999.

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