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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
When you know better you do better.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?
Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
Man is what he reads.
Education is freedom.
You can't learn less.
Read in order to live.
To think is to differ.
