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52 Quote(s) Found

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…the purpose of reviewing your mistakes isn’t to shame your past self. It’s to educate your future self.

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Our experiences in school can either fuel or flatten our growth.

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…study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality.

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…we must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity, in our workplaces, our homes, and especially in our schools.

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…education is meant to guide us from childhood to maturity. It should be high among the ways in which we realize our creative abilities. More often it is why we lose sight of them.

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The curricula of most school systems seem to divide into two broad groups: the useful disciplines and the useless ones.

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Ironically, the demand for new skills is coming at a time when colleges are least able to adapt and provide them because growing student numbers restrict the time available for staff to offer personalized teaching.

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Far from looking to the future, too often [systems of mass education] are facing stubbornly towards the past.

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…we don’t grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.

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…it is a mistake to think of the relationship between education and the economy as a straightforward process of supply and demand…

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