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• Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

  Bhartrhari

  Men, Beast, Glorious

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• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, School, Self

  Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

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• The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Matter, Speak, Proof

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• What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

  Peter Ustinov

  Process, Persons, What Is Education

  Peter Ustinov (2011). “Dear Me”, p.203, Random House

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• you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

  Charles Kettering

  History, Want, Problem

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

  Socrates

  Knowledge, Knowing, May

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• All learning is derived from things previously known.

  Aristotle

  Known

  Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.155

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• Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Supposing That, Design

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities-perhaps the only one-in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. In most other fields of human endeavour there is change, but rarely progress ... And in most fields we do not even know how to evaluate change.

  Karl Popper

  Dream, Mistake, Science

  1960 Conjectures and Refutations (published1963), ch.10.

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• How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been operated upon to make them learn acceptable ways of participating as members of "the group."

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  School, Science, Law

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• Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mean, Experience, Ends

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.55, Macmillan

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• And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

  Malala Yousafzai

  School, Goal, Empowering

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". The speech to the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Peace, Men, Waste

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• The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Life Lesson, Care

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• We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, School, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Education, Men, Thinking

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• Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspirational, Men, Growth

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

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• Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Kind, Natural

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• In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Eye, Ignorant

  William Shakespeare (1796*). “The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems”, p.142

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• There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Old Things, Investing

  “FBI revisiting Clinton emails just latest in long history of 'October Surprises“ by Chad Pergram, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2016.

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• It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Encouraging

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• In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

  John Naisbitt

  Life, Change, Future

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Humorous, Wings

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• Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teaching, Faculty, Learning Experience

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.354, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• But the great Master said, "I see
  No best in kind, but in degree;
  I gave a various gift to each,
  To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teaching, Degrees, Kind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “Poems. New, complete ed”, p.188

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