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21 " The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. "
― Carl R. Rogers
22 " An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything "
― C.V. Wedgwood
23 " A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, " Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought. "
24 " The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon. "
― Abhijit Naskar , The Education Decree
25 " In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life. Your life up to this point has given you all the experience you need to be intelligent, but you have to think about those experiences. If you don't think about them, you'll be psychologically unwell. If you do think about them, you will become not merely educated but intelligent. "
― Neal Stephenson , The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
26 " Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. "
― G.K. Chesterton
27 " The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. "
― Aristotle
28 " The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. "
― Thomas Jefferson
29 " My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli "
30 " It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. "
― James Baldwin
31 " Only the educated are free. "
― Epictetus
32 " Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
33 " It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educ "
34 " It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. "
― Ezra Taft Benson
35 " Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life... "
― Tayeb Salih , Season of Migration to the North
36 " Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applying themselves to the sciences and other disciplines, it seems to me that those of us who can should use this long-craved freedom to study and to let men see how greatly they wronged us when depriving us of its honor and advantages. And if any woman becomes so proficient as to be able to write down her thoughts, let her do so and not despise the honor, but rather flaunt it instead of fine clothes, necklaces, and rings. For these may be considered ours only by use, whereas the honor of being educated is ours entirely. "
― Louise Labé
37 " The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle? "
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Purple Hibiscus
38 " Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, " expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that. "
39 " Is he well educated?" " Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. " Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day... "
40 " In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile "
― Isaac Asimov , Robot Visions (Robot 0.5)