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I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.: Carl Rogers
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 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
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.: Richard Clark
We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.: Jerome Seymour Bruner
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.: James R. Angell
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.: Hosea Ballou (1796 - 1861)
Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.: J. Todd
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.: Mary Lyon

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