Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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
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.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete
No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
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
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.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you
Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.