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Wisdom of Education
Quotations on education to move and inspire.
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"People remember:
20% of what they see,
30% of what they hear,
50% of what they see and hear,
80% of what they see, hear and do simultaneously." (1)
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"Tis education forms the common mind, just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
Alexander Pope
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"Education is a treasure."
Petronius
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"Teaching is the highest form of understanding."
Aristotle
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"I am still learning."
Michelangelo's motto
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"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
Robert E. Lee
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"Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand."
Confucius
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
Abraham Lincoln
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Henry B. Adams
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"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."
Francis de Sales
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Henry David Thoreau
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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats
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(1) Prof. Fred T. Hofstetter, Director, Instructional Technology Center, University of Delaware, USA.
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