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Education is not so important as people think. - Elizabeth Bowen

Education is not so important as people think. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Experience isnt interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Elizabeth Bowen
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But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated. – Kathy Ireland

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Education

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear – which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks youll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers. – Michael Morpurgo

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Education

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. – Carter G. Woodson

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Education

They basically said that if I didnt show up for school theyd mark me present, they wouldnt send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month Id go out to Jamaica, but I didnt take it seriously. – Dave Van Ronk

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I cant stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it aint music, its close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. – Billie Holiday

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To be educated, a person doesnt have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life. – Thomas More

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