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Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked. ↗

— John Dewey

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In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall. In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

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Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important. ↗

— Rafe Esquith

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We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. ↗

— Ryan White

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In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know. ↗

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. ↗

— Sidney Hook

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The giving of love is an education in itself. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

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