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Quotes About Independence

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Education is the cornerstone of liberty.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
~ David Horowitz
Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.
~ Charlotte Mason
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
~ Alan M. Dershowitz
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
~ Sam Houston
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
~ Robert Henri
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
~ Walter Scott
When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.
~ Walter Lippmann
When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.
~ Hyman Rickover
My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.
~ Fiona Wood
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.
~ Unknown
We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.
~ Bruce Springsteen
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
~ Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.
~ Maria Montessori
The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only way to be totally free is through education.
~ Jose Marti
I think I'm pretty confident, and I know I'm different than everyone else, so I'm going to do what's me.
~ Farrah Abraham
Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
~ Victoria Osteen
If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.
~ Kevin Harvick
I know him very well, but I think Alessandro Del Piero knows himself the best, better than everyone else, so only he can answer the question if he needs to stop or needs to play. It's his own decision.
~ Edgar Davids