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Education Quotes

The document contains several quotes about education, including that a mind expanded by new ideas can never return to its original form, an expert knows more about less, and the purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. It also includes quotes that learning should inspire further thinking beyond homework, knowledge should pursue the child, and a teacher's role is to make themselves unnecessary through student learning.

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Education Quotes

The document contains several quotes about education, including that a mind expanded by new ideas can never return to its original form, an expert knows more about less, and the purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. It also includes quotes that learning should inspire further thinking beyond homework, knowledge should pursue the child, and a teacher's role is to make themselves unnecessary through student learning.

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Education - Quotes

 "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework." -- Edith Ann,
 A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
 A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between
ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I
don't care. - Richard Pratt
 An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. - Nicholas Murray Butler
 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
 "Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." -- John Cotton Dana
 "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
-George Bernard Shaw
 "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." -- Perelman
 "Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm." -- Publilius Syrus
 "Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." -- Sir Claus Moser
 "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." -- Carl Rogers
 "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are
not here to worship what is known, but to question it." -- J. Bronowski,
 "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." -- Thomas Carruthers

 "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." -- Malcolm Forbes -

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