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Quotes About Education & Learning, Part V


Language reproduces the world, but in doing so, organizes the world like language. – Émile Benveniste

Books make epochs and nations like epochs and nations make books. – Jean-Jacques Ampère

Linguistic history is basically the darkest of the dark arts, the only means to conjure up the ghosts of vanished centuries. With linguistic history we reach furthest back into the mystery: humankind. – Cola Minis

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The arts personalize knowledge and visions, demanding an ever growing development of the mind and spirit. We do our children and our country ill service by not supporting them adequately in our schools. – Shirley Trusty Corey

The truth that a work of art seeks is the universal truth of that which is singular. – Michel Deguy

Art is a lie which brings us closer to the truth. – Pablo Picasso

Who searches for truth runs the risk of finding it. – Isabelle Allende

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. – Leonardo da Vinci

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -that is educated. – Edith Hamilton

. . a good education is another name for happiness. – Ann Plato

Bid the long-prisoned mind attain A sphere of dazzling day, Bid her unpinion'd foot The cliffs of knowledge climb, And search for Wisdom's sacred root That mocks the blight of time.– Lydia Howard Sigourney The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. – B. B. King

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is to be educated. – Edith Hamilton

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  1. Hello teacher laura.
    My name is Chompu Ngonta.
    M. 5/1 No. 20

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  2. How many languages do you speak? (Onanong Nonkhamwong M.5/3 No.25)

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    1. I speak English, Spanish and just a little French.

      I can say a few words and phrases in Japanese and Thai.

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  3. I like this picture I think it looks attractive.

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  4. What are you interested in about Thailand.

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    1. Thai people are very friendly and the scenery is beautiful. :D

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  5. What do you do in your holiday. My name is Oranit Tasripoo No.24 M.5/3

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