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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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. – George Santayana

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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. – Orson Scott Card

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I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. – Rutherford B. Hayes

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I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that. – J. C. Watts

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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. – Barbara Jordan

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