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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.: Lillian Smith
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.: John Lubbock
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.: Robert M. Hutchins
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.: John Holt
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.: Sir William Haley

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