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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. -John Adams

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Not everybody can be famous. But everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

-- Henry S. Haskins

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In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

-- Sugata Mitra

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The human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

-- Anatole France

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Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men’s candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

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A man without education is like a building without foundation.

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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy and it can only start a vicious cycle.

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