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Quotes- Words to the Wise...
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You can teach your children everything they need to know to become lifelong learners.
- "I educate, not by lessons, but by going about my business." (Socrates 470?-399 B.C.)
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If you want a college degree, but missed out on the usual four-year-after-high-school time frame, you can still earn an accredited degree non-traditionally.
- "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!" (Derek Bok, former Harvard University President)
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Knowledge is an investment: dividends can be pleasure, prosperity, and purpose.
- "Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old." (Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773)
- You can teach yourself anything you want to know.
- "The true University of these days is a Collection of Books." (Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881)
- Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. (Plato 427?-347 B.C.)
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. (Samuel Johnson 1709-1784)
- Learning makes a Man fit Company for himself. (Thomas Fuller 1654-1734)
- We learn only from those whom we love. (Goethe 1749-1832)
- Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. (Ivan Illich 1926-)
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. (Mark Twain)
- Quotes by Albert Einsten.
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