“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.” (William Feather)
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In Your Own Words…
In your own words, what is the main idea or theme of the quote above by the American publisher and writer William Feather?
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)
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Getting Personal
From your own educational experiences, do you believe that schools adequately emphasize what William Feather has called “education?”
From your own life, try to back up your opinion about the above question with examples from your own school experiences.
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Quotation AI Assistant
Interested in seeing what artificial intelligence (ai) has to say about the meaning of today’s quotation? Compare it to your own interpretation. You may be fascinated, or even possibly humbled.
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INSIGHTS for SUCCESS
“They know enough who know how to learn.” (Henry Adams)
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” (Carl Rogers)
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” (Maimonides)
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