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EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

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'Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife' – John Dewey.

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"To call woman the weaker sex is a libel". - Mahatma Gandhi

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"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it". - George Bernard Shaw

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In the 1980s, the film Educating Rita struck a chord with many who saw adult education as a major cultural divide.

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"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend" – Theophrastus

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“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind ...” —William Thompson (Lord Kelvin), 1824–1907.

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"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it". - Salvador Dali

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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". - Albert Einstein

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"To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter". – Aristotle

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“Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.”- Kurt Vonnegut.

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