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  Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

  Xunzi

  Inspiring, Leadership, Teacher

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• Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Brain, Rooms

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.300

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• Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

  Lewis Carroll

  Ambition, Turtles, Different

  Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

  John Adams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Letter to Abigail Adams, www.masshist.org. December 28, 1794.

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• We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

  Walter Scott

  Life, Positive, Real

  To J. G. Lockhart, August 1825, quoted in Lockhart 's 'Life of Sir Walter Scott' vol. 6 (1837) ch. 2

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• the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

  Andy Rooney

  Elderly, Feet, World

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Faith, God, Christian

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

  Al MacInnis

  Self Confidence, Independence, Steps

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• To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

  George Washington

  Country, Art, Reading

  Joseph Manca, George Washington (2012). “George Washington's Eye: Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon”, p.176, JHU Press

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• The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

  Mirabeau B. Lamar

  Money, Men, Mind

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• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teaching, Learning, School

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

  James Madison

  Light, People, Mind

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Philosophy, Teaching, Learning

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Lost Love, Divorce, People

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2010). “Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity”, p.20, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

  William Hazlitt

  Learning, May, Fool

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1092, Delphi Classics

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• The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Believe, School

  "The Arts and the Creation of Mind". Book by Elliot W. Eisner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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• Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

  Ludacris

  Important, Music Business

  "Ludacris says 'education is extremely important' for music career" by Mawuse Ziegbe, www.mtv.com. September 25, 2010.

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• Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Learning, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 13, 2017

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• Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Learned Person, Youth, Teachers Day

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• The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

  David Hockney

  People, Brain, Degrees

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• Education ought everywhere to be religious education. At the same time, parents are farther bound to employ no instructors who will not educate their children religiously. To commit our children to the care of irreligious persons, is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Religious, Children, Parent

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• A child miseducated is a child lost.

  John F. Kennedy

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

  John Stuart Mill

  Children, Teaching, Diversity

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• There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Robert Eastaway

  Math, Government, Self

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