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• For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

  Thomas More

  People, Suffering, Thieves

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.24, Bibliolis Books

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• Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated and make sure we are coming from a spirituality of our own choosing.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Stories, Spirituality

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “The Heart of Social Change: How to Make a Difference in Your World”, p.43, PuddleDancer Press

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• There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours.

  Richard Rorty

  Religious, Children, Silly

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• We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. If you don't like what you are doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

  Timothy Leary

  Philosophy, Moving, Games

  Lecture, June 1966, in Politics of Ecstasy (1968) ch. 21

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• I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

  Kathy Ireland

  Education, Learning, Looks

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• Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

  David Brooks

  Character, People, Leave Me Alone

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• We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

  Moshe Sharett

  Country, Morocco, Achieve

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• Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.

  Jules Verne

  New Experiences, Culture, World

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• Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

  Christine de Pizan

  Men, Foolish Man, Opinion

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

  Curtis Mayfield

  School, Fool, Educated Fools

  Song: If There's Hell Below

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• The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

  Neal Stephenson

  Stupid, Intelligent, Differences

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.283, Spectra

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• Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled.  All our difficulty comes with the others.  When did you meet a workman who believes the papers?  He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem.  We have to recondition him.  But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning.  They're all right already.  They'll believe anything.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Believe, People

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Book, Silence, Sound

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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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• Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Practice, Two, Tasks

  William Lloyd Garrison, Bruce Rogers (1905). “The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison”

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• The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Reality, Mind, Fiction

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child -- this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law, it might react on the law and make that more stringent, until one got to some state of things in which there would be a little genuine care for the race, instead of the present haphazard higgledy-piggledy ways.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Race, Law

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Private Years, 1884-1914”, p.125, Psychology Press

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• One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

  Thomas More

  Problem, Schooled, Our Time

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• I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

  Gladys Aylward

  Men, Choices, Done

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• You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

  Homer Hickam

  Country, Teacher, Parent

  Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.146, Dell

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• A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was.   In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, School, Men

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

  John Maynard Keynes

  War, Class, Bourgeoisie

  John Maynard Keynes (1952). “Essays in Persuasion”

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• An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

  Henry Ford

  Thinking, Persons, Know How

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• There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work.

  Irving Kristol

  Children, People, Adults

  "Origin of the Specious" by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 1997.

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• You don't have to be educated to be a president.

  Julius Malema

  President

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