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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. -- John Locke
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan
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Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class. -- Michelle Williams
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community. -- Bunker Roy
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. -- Aleister Crowley
So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. -- Nicholas Kristof
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. -- Caroline Kennedy
When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting. -- Diplo
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. -- William Godwin
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! -- Philip Pullman
I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why. -- Margaret Geller
My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional. -- Lynn Shelton
A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?' -- Nathaniel Philbrick
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. -- David Nicholls
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future. -- Michael Morpurgo
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bible reading is an education in itself. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education. -- Kate DiCamillo
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. -- Jane Austen
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. -- Holbrook Jackson
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan
Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience iswhat you get from not reading it. -- Common
Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures -- John Ruskin
Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits. -- Oliver DeMille
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform. -- George W. Bush
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. -- John Lubbock
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading. -- Charlotte Mason
I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he. -- Laura Bates
Sylvieâ??s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, â??The sign that one has acquired oneâ??s learning from reading novels rather than an educationâ?¦ -- Kate Atkinson
So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The best way to prepare for life is acombination of formal traditional education, reading, seminars,and workshops, coupled with experience as well as tapping into the knowledge of experienced people. -- Derric Yuh Ndim

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