November 2003 Issue
Quotes
"The principle goal of education is
to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what
other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and
discoverers."
- Jean Piaget
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"The things taught in colleges and
schools are not an education, but the means of education."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from
time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
- Oscar Wilde
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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this
country depends."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even
how much you know. It's being able to differentia between what you do know and
what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and
it's knowing how to use the information you get."
- William Feather
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"If your plan is for a year, plant rice. If your plan is for a
decade, plant trees. If your plan is for a lifetime, educate children."
- Confucius
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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot
read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
- Alvin Toffler
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