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  • ... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Educational Quotes , Hands Quotes
  • Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Educational Quotes , Clothes Quotes
  • The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Educational Quotes
  • There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Educational Quotes , Two Quotes
  • Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Confucius Quotes , Educational Quotes , Lying Quotes