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“Learn your past, find your path.”

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Author:Kool Moe Dee

“I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.”

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Author:Eduardo Galeano

“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.”

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Author:Gustave Courbet

“I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.”

Source: Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper

“To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.”

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Author:Howard Mumford Jones

“So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.”

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Author:David Elkind

“Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.”

Past Education Teach Sooner Or Later Past Away

Book:Lyrics

Source: Lyrics

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“God cannot alter the past, though historians can.”

Past Education History Historical Historian

Author:Samuel Butler

“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.”

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Author:Howard Gardner

“It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.”

“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.”

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Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.”

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Author:W. Timothy Garvey