Favorite Quotations
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Education & Learning, 7
Worse Than Watergate
True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily “dumbing down.” ~ Isaac Asimov, It's Been a Good Life Learning it (Shakespeare's plays) in school was a bit of a bore. ~ Al Pacino Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education. ~ Chuang tzu A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. ~ Jean Baptiste Molière You can finish school, and even make it easy, but you never finish your education, and it is seldom easy. ~ Zig Ziglar First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it. ~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Conversations in Paint The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated. ~ Robert Henri, Art Spirit A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others. ~ Buddah You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~ Marvin Minsky Our educational system basically strives for normal—which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside. ~ Neil Young, Esquire, 1/06 Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and atended to with diligence. ~ Abigail Adams There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. ~ Marva Collins Learning without thought is labor lost. ~ Confucius Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost
"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months." ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo