"Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."

Dewey, John on Education
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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Asimov, Isaac on Self-improvement
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"We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least."

Gardner, David P. on Education
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"The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

Baldwin, James on Education
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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 belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Education
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Education
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"Education is the ability to meet life's situations."

Hibben, Dr. John G. on Education
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"The education of a man is never complete until he dies."

Lee, Robert E. on Education
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"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

Whately, Richard on Curiosity
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