To be educated is not to be filled with information but to d... - Quentin Skinner

"To be educated is not to be filled with information but to develop the capacity to ask meaningful questions."

Quentin Skinner Education

Historian Philosopher British Born 1940 (age 86)

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"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

"Ideas have consequences, and the historian's task is to trace them."

"We must understand the languages in which the past speaks to us."

"The study of history is the study of human possibility."

"Education opens doors."

"Education opens doors to endless possibilities."

"I ain't got the education you got, bub."

"You can't put a price on history."