Live and learn

1. LIVE AND LEARN

By Olga Gladkaya, Natasha Vysotskaya
and Ann Kalinovskaya

2. The aims of education

To develop understanding of other people/cultures;
To learn social skills;
To develop critical thinking;
To become aware of how the past has affected the
present;
To prepare for life in the workplace.

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Quotations about education
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to
drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.”
Henry Peter
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Will Durant
“One`s work may be finished someday, but one`s education
never.”
Alexandre Dumas
“You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep
moving forward.”
Conrad Hall

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“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few
possess.”
Karl Kraus
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or
eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest
thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
Henry Ford
“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an
open one.”
Malcolm Forbes
“ Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from
one generation to another.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

5. Famous self-taught people

Robert Burns
Often referred to as Scotland’s National Bard, poet and songwriter Robert
Burns educated himself principally through reading.
Leonardo da Vinci
An Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician,
engineer, inventor and writer was self-taught.
Alexander Graham Bell
Self-taught inventor of the telephone and telegraph. His college
experience consisted only of attending a few lectures.
Bill Gates
If he’s not the most famous college dropout in American history, he is for
sure the wealthiest. Bill Gates as if you didn’t know is co-founder of
Microsoft and easily the richest man in the world.

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10. Desirable competencies

To accomplish important things without delay
Self – discipline
Self-motivation
Useful habits
Time management
Memory
Logical reasoning
Creative thinking and creativity
Goal setting and planning