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“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Children learn to smile from their parents.”
Shinichi Suzuki
“Nature has always had more power than education”
Voltaire
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel”
Socrates
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”
Woody Allen
“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson