Education Quotes and Quotations
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Marriage can wait, education cannot.
Khaled Hosseini
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Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis
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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Nelson Mandela
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Plato
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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Oscar Wilde
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
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You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius
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I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
Roald Dahl
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view.
Jack Kerouac
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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas Adams
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
Elbert Hubbard
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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost
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I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
