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“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)

“There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher.”

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Author:Robert Dabney

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

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Author:Robert Frost

“In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.”

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Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.”

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Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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.”

“American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.”

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Author:Ishmael Reed

“The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.”

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Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.”

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Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.”

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Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.”

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Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.”

Source: Towards a new world: defining moments

“Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.”

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Author:Simone Veil

“The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.”

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Author:Martin Buber

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

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Author:John Cotton Dana

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.”

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Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”

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Author:Ernest L. Boyer

“Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.”

“Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.”

“No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.”

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Book:A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

Source: A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

“The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.”

“Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.”

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Author:Ralph Fiennes