"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
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"People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all."
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."
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"One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world."
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"Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
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"When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think."
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information."
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"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
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"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
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"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
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"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
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"There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist."
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"Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities."
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"True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own."
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"Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds."
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"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
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"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."
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