on education
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
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From our community writers
In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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More on education
I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
Olivia WildeOlivia Wilde I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn’t teach it in school.
Jimmy PageJimmy Page The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
Vin DieselVin Diesel We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.
Eddie Van HalenEddie Van Halen Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
Chuck BerryChuck Berry For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters