Quotations: Education/Learning
As the title suggestsn these quotations address the topics of Education and Learning.
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"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
-Kahlil Gibran
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
-Confucius
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."
-Denis Diderot
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"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."
-Samuel Johnson
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"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."
-Bill Beattie
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"Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way."
-Robert Heinlein
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"Belief gets in the way of learning."
-Robert Heinlein
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"He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever."
-Tom J. Connelly
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."
-Robert Frost
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"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
-Tom Robbins
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"But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly."
-Plato
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"If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out a big snort and say "How do you figger that!" real loud. Then lean back and sort of smirk."
-Jack Handey
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"I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory."
-Jack Handey
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"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
-Will Durant
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"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving."
-Russell Green
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"He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves."
-A. P. Gouthey
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"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions."
-Bishop Creighton
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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
-John F. Kennedy
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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
-Robert M. Hutchins
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"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
-Igor Stravinsky
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"We are students of words: we are shut up in a schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We are students of words: we are shut up in a schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
-Albert Einstein
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"Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don't start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
De-accession euphemisms.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
-William Safire's Great Rules of Writing
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"Only the educated are free."
-Epictetus
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."
-Robert Frost
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"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
-Malcolm S. Forbes
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"Practice is the best of all instructors."
-Publilius Syrus
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"When the student is ready... the lesson appears."
-Gene Oliver
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"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
-Alvin Toffler
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"We cannot learn without pain."
-Aristotle
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"Learning is finding out what you already know."
-Richard Bach
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