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Education is resilient, training is robust.
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153 |
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Universities, unfortunately, are not always the best place to learn. Too many of them are less places of higher learning than they are high-class vocational schools.
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074 |
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One of the marvelous things about life is that any gaps in your education can be filled, whatever your age or situation, by reading, and thinking about what you read.
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078 |
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Leaders are not made by corporate courses, any more than they are made by their college courses, but by experience.
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179 |
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Making mistakes is central to the education of budding scientists and artists of all kinds; they must have the freedom to experiment, try this idea, flop, try another idea, take a risk, be willing to get the wrong answer.
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309 |
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The focus on constant testing, which grew out of the reasonable desire to measure and standardize children’s accomplishments, has intensified their fear of failure.
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309 |
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Professionals’ education must be complemented by that of the broader public.
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247 |
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Your first job out of college, or your first job out of business school, won’t be your last. But it’s a tremendous opportunity for self-discovery and growth.
|
090 |
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The fastest-growing industry in any developed country may turn out to be the continuing education of already well-educated adults, which is based on values that are all but incompatible with those of the youth culture.
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047 |
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[Knowledge workers], and only they, own and control the most expensive of the means of production – their education – and their most important tool – their knowledge.
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209 |
