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Category Archives: Education
William G. McAdoo on Ignorance
Isaac Asimov on Knowledge
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” 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
Enrico Fermi on Knowledge
“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.” Continue reading
Plutarch on Wisdom
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” Continue reading
Josh Billings on Experience
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Education
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” Continue reading
Mark Twain on Education
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” Continue reading
Will Durant on Education
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” Continue reading
Michel De Montaigne on Education
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” Continue reading
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