"A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear."

Stockdale, James B. on education   

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."

Bodett, Tom on school
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"Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody."

Unknown, Source on education
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"I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something."

Jensen, Eric on learning
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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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"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion."

Spark, Muriel on education   

"There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on learning
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"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools"

Bennett, William John on education
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"Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt."

Rees, R. I. on education   

"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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"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."

Commager, Henry S. on change
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"Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence."

Wiggam, Albert Edward on intelligence and intellectuals   

"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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"I add this, that rational ability without education has more often raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability"

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education."

Gray, Paul E. on education
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on self-confidence
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