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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win read more
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
