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The measure of an education is that you acquire some idea of the extent of your ignorance.

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of our own ignorance.

It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that you have, that you can claim to have been educated at all.

We gain our first measure of intelligence when we first admit our own ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

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