"It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it."

Dunne, Finley Peter on education   

"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."

Durant, William J. on education
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"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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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. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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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"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking."

Dick, Philip K. on education
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"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on education
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on education
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"Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

Bierce, Ambrose on education
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"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

Bourne, Alec on education
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"Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap."

Chambers, Paul on education   

"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on education
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"Getting things done is not always what is most important. There is value in allowing others to learn, even if the task is not accomplished as quickly, efficiently or effectively."

Clyde, R.D. on education   

"Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man."

Cook, Eliza on education
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"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions."

Creighton, Mandell on education
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"Only the educated are free."

Epictetus on education
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