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Category Archives: Education
R. Buckminster Fuller on Science
“Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.” Continue reading
Sharon Salzberg on Life and Education
“We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.” Continue reading
H. G. Wells on History and Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” Continue reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton on Education
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” Continue reading
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Intellectuals
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.” Continue reading
Anatole France on Education
“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 know and what you don’t.” Continue reading
Georges Clemenceau on Experience
“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.” Continue reading
Thomas Fuller on Facts
“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.” Continue reading
Victor Hugo on Education
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” Continue reading
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