Quote by Malcolm Forbes
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes

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It is unfortunate we can’t buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. – Malcolm Forbes

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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. – Brander Matthews

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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. – Jean Piaget

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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of mans future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individuals total development lags behind? – Maria Montessori

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Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. – George Will

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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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If you can laugh together, you can work together. – Robert Orben

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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. – A. R. Ammons

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I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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