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“Education is the ability to meet life's situations.”

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Author:John Grier Hibben

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.”

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Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.”

Want Children Nations Ability Education Sake Be Encouraged Nothing Matters

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.”

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Author:Malcolm Bradbury

“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one's ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the "educational system" are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”

“Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.”

“Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.”

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Author:Sugata Mitra

“We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.”

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”

Source: Effective Teaching and Mentoring: Realizing the Transformational Power of Adult Learning Experiences