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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just ...

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In a traditional classroom, the spread between the fastest and slowest students grows over time, [an...

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Salman KhanThe One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for o...

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It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose th...

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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essen...

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Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely tu...

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Samuel BeckettCollected Poems in English and French

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that w...

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Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse ...

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People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectur...

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Samuel JohnsonThe Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has educatio...

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If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too res...

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Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or c...

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Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that...

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Scott AdamsThe Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses

Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. Y...

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Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting ch...

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Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was eman...

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Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly. The educational institution i...

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Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow th...

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Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly. The educational institution i...

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Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow th...

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Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly. The educational institution i...

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Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow th...

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Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly. The educational institution i...

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Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow th...

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Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher...

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Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of ...

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Sidney PoitierThe Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another...

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Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even ones...

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Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire...

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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they we...

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Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own sa...

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In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fi...

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Spider RobinsonThe Callahan Chronicals

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the ba...

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Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vi...

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Entirely in accordance with what education is supposed to be. Education is the sum of what students ...

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Stephen FryThe Fry Chronicles

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities...

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Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively forti...

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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fo...

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You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your w...

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Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but neces...

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Education is neither writing on a blank slate nor allowing the child's nobility to come into flower....

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. A...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Also, even if technocrats provide reasonable estimates of a risk, which itself is an iffy enterprise...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscore...

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Steven PinkerThe Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to trai...

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[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people...

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I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their e...

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Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be p...

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Swami VivekanandaComplete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his aud...

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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smit...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other h...

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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise...

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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human lab...

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So Merlyn sent you to me," said the badger, "to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you tw...

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The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. T...

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He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usua...

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T. H. WhiteThe Sword in the Stone

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. Fo...

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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us to escape not from our own time - for ...

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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of...

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A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he...

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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in fil...

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The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot ...

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She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education,...

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She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

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Progress just means bad things happen faster.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question...

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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others r...

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In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer strea...

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greate...

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(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more ref...

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To the liberal class, every big economic problem is really an education problem, a failure by the lo...

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that),...

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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who ligh...

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If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council o...

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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afr...

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength...

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