#acquiring

I was very adept at acquiring languages. ↗

— Anna Held

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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. ↗

— William Glasser

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. ↗

— William Glasser

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We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. ↗

— William Glasser

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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