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We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations. ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

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She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

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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 differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. ↗

— Anatole France

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You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

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Those who trust us educate us. ↗

— George Eliot

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Ignorance is the parent of fear. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself. ↗

— Timothy Leary

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Education isn't for getting a job. It's about developing yourself as a human being. ↗

— Liz Berry

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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