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  2. These 35 Inspiring Quotes About Education Remind Us Why ... - AOL

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    “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” ...

  3. Definitions of education - Wikipedia

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    However, other theorists focus mainly on education as an achievement, a state, or a product that results as a consequence of the process of being educated. [5] [6] [2] Such approaches are usually based on the features, mental states, and character traits exemplified by educated persons. In this regard, being educated implies having an ...

  4. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    He is one of only four people ever to have won both Mastermind and Brain of Britain. [29] On a couple of occasions on Eggheads he has referred to himself as "The Autodidact's Autodidact". Ameer Hamza Shinwari, modern Pashto poet. Though not educated in the regular manner, he was able to establish his career through self-education.

  5. Educational attainment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The South which had by far the largest population with roughly sixty-six million people had the lowest educational attainment at every level. [ 3 ] The proportion of high school graduates was the largest in the Midwest while the proportion of those with some college or an associate degree was the second and that of those with a bachelor's ...

  6. Education - Wikipedia

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    A central topic in education studies revolves around how people should be educated and what goals should guide this process. Various aims have been proposed, including the acquisition of knowledge and skills, personal development, and the cultivation of character traits.

  7. Jane Roland Martin - Wikipedia

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    Jane Roland Martin (born July 20, 1929) is an American philosopher known for her work on philosophy of education—specifically, her consideration of gender-related issues in education, on which she has written extensively.

  8. Educated (memoir) - Wikipedia

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    Educated is a 2018 memoir by the American author Tara Westover.Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college, and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world.

  9. The Educated Mind - Wikipedia

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    to educate people in content that would give them a "privileged and rational view of reality" [1] . Here we find the following ideas: reason and knowledge can provide privileged access to the world; knowledge drives the student's mental development; education is an epistemological process.