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“A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education”

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“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer”
Alice Wellington Rollins quotes
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“And how are you going to make education easy? You might as well try to build an athlete by keeping him in a hammock with cream puffs and beer.”
Edgar Pangborn quotes
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“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it”
William Haley quotes
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“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”
Malcolm X quotes (American black militant leader who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s, 1925-1965)
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“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism”
David Suzuki quotes (Canadian environmentalist, scientist and broadcaster b.1936)
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“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers”
Jean Piaget quotes (Swiss Psychologist and pioneer in the study of child intelligence, 1896-1980)
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“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
Thomas More quotes (English Humanist, Statesman and Chancellor of England, 1477-1535)
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“Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process”
Kurt Lewin quotes
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“Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve”
Roger Lewin quotes
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“Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading”
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