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“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”

Thomas Henry Huxley quotes (English Biologist, He was an advocate of Darwin's natural selection theory and named the phylum Coelenterata (Jellyfish). 1825-1895)

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“The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”

Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

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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 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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“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers”

Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

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“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel”

Socrates quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, 470 BC-399 BC)

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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 can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow”

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“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”

Bill Beattie quotes (American manager and coach)

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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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“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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