Completes Acquisition

Famous quotes containing the words completes and/or acquisition:

“Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”
—18th century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

“Always and everywhere children take an active role in the construction and acquisition of learning and understanding. To learn is a satisfying experience, but also, as the psychologist Nelson Goodman tells us, to understand is to experience desire, drama, and conquest.”
—Carolyn Edwards (20th century)