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  • Oscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
    A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
    The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971)
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Edward Blishen Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • William Butler Yeats Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Brad Henry Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Omar N. Bradley Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
    Omar N. Bradley
    American general (1893 - 1981)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • A. J. Muste Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
    Some Notes on Workers Education in New International (1935) Vol.2, No.7 p. 225
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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  • James L. Hayes Effective managers live in the present but concentrate on the future.
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  • Arlen Specter Effective security measures do not come cheap.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • John F. Kennedy Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Brooke Shields Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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