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" You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education? "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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" To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. "

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" If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. "

" The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not. "

" Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' "

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" Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. "

" To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. "

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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" Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education. "

" With no education, you have neocolonialism instead of colonialism, like you've got in Africa now and like you've got in Haiti. So what we're talking about is there has to be an educational program. That's very important. "

" Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive. "

" Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. "

" Read in order to live. "

" Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. "

" If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. "

" I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. "

" An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. "

" Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. "