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“We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.”

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Author:Mary Wortley Montagu

“Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.”

“I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.”

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Author:Jonathan Kozol

“'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'”

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Author:John Abbott

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”

“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”

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Author:Laura Bush

“No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.”

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Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.”

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Author:Carl Rogers

“The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.”

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Author:Paul MacCready