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“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.”

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Author:Will Durant

“The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.”

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Author:Miroslav Vitous

“That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“I am always sorry to hear that such and such a person is going to school to be educated. This is a great mistake. If the person is to get the benefit of what we call education, he must educate himself, under the direction of the teacher.”

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Book:Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching

Source: Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching

“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.”

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Author:Nancy Astor

“Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.”

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Author:Will Durant

“Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.”

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Author:David McCullough

“Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.”

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Author:Oliver DeMille

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.”

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Author:Lynda Resnick