Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

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Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

-- Karl Popper

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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.

-- Pete Seeger

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Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

-- Vijayaraj

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

-- Confucius

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In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

-- Stephen Covey

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