Education

(39 votes)   How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(39 votes)   In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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(39 votes)   It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Alec Bourne

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(39 votes)   Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(39 votes)   Mentoring is all about people -- it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated -- concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.

Rene Carayol
American Business Executive

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(39 votes)   Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(39 votes)   We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(38 votes)   Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Francis Keppel

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(38 votes)   If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

Desmond Bagley

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(38 votes)   It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(38 votes)   Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however worthy, to make judgments.

Richard Mitchell

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(38 votes)   There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Francis Bacon

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(37 votes)   Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

Chuang Tzu
c 369 BC-286 BC, Chinese Philosopher

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(37 votes)   Stars are not seen by sunshine

Gabriel Ramirez

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(36 votes)   Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.

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