Educational Quotes

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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education. — Mark Twain
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. — Mark Twain
Training teaches how. Education teaches why. — Nido R Qubein
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life. — Northrop Frye
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. — Pablo Picasso
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto… — Parker J. Palmer
It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices… — Paulo Freire
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What did you ASK at school today? — Richard P. Feynman
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… — Samuel Johnson
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course,… — William Osler
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. — Saint Augustine
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that… — Stephen Downes
Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself. — Sybil Marshall
What we learn to do, we learn by doing. — Thomas Jefferson
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher. — Thomas Paine
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. — Tony Buzan
The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but… — Woodrow Wilson
Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing. — Aesop

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