Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

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"I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life."

- B. F. Skinner

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"A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B. F. Skinner

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"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B. F. Skinner

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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