Education

(36 votes)   Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Edward Blishen
1920-, British Actor

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(36 votes)   Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.

Frank Crane
American Actor

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(36 votes)   Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

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(36 votes)   The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

Philip K. Dick
1928-1982, American Science Fiction Writer

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(36 votes)   When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.

Mark Twain

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(35 votes)   Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B. F. Skinner

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(35 votes)   Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

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(35 votes)   I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(35 votes)   If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Claire Weeks

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(35 votes)   Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

Paul Chambers
1904-1981, American Business Executive

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(35 votes)   Most owners of small businesses openly state that they believe in the value of skills and operational training. However, they also admit that they themselves undertake very little training, or offer only limited training to their employees, because of time restraints.

Moshe Gerstenhaber
American Business Executive

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(35 votes)   The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(35 votes)   We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--Responsibility.

Herbert Hoover

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(34 votes)   Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!

Alexander Herzen
1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker

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(34 votes)   Education is expensive but not as expensive as ignorance.

John T Foley
Union Leader

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