Education

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

― Robert Frost

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

― Aristotle

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

― Henry Ford

“Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.”

― Adelaide Hoodless

“Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”

– John D. Rockefeller

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

– Benjamin Franklin

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

– Malcolm X

“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

– Dr. Seuss

“Upon the subject of education … I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.”

– Abraham Lincoln

What do you think? What does it mean to be educated?
With all the degrees, online degrees and programs available nowadays, what does it really mean to be educated?

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