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Tag Name "Schooling" (139)

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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.
Anatole France
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Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.
Amartya Sen
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Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source. To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.
Ward Churchill
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Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
Confucius
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Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.
Alex Tabarrok
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What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.
Alex Tabarrok
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There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser
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Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Education is not received. It is achieved.
Albert Einstein
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
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Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling.
Walter Benjamin
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau
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I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.
Lena Horne
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My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
Winston Churchill
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So I started home schooling. I was a little freaked out about that, because I' m such a social person, involved in everything. It was awesome. I loved it and I loved being home.
Stacie Orrico
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I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
Rick Springfield
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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
Mark Twain
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The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
Milton Friedman
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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education
Mark Twain
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
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Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.
Michael Jackson
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Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
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There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply rooted in the values, traditions, and norms of family and culture.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
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