Quote by George Santayana
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of idea

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. – George Santayana

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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. – George Santayana

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Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. – Jerome Bruner

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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. – William Glasser

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