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Quotations on the nature of education, and what people have tried to make of | Quotations on the nature of education and related ideas, and what people have tried to make of them instead. | ||
=Positive= | =Positive= | ||
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* The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. | * The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. | ||
==Michel de Montaigne (1533-92)== | |||
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. | |||
==Daniel Defoe== | ==Daniel Defoe== | ||
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==Johann Gottlieb Fichte== | ==Johann Gottlieb Fichte== | ||
* | * You must fashion [the person], and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will. | ||
:Addresses to the German Nation | |||
==John Stuart Mill== | ==John Stuart Mill== | ||