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Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step read more
Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step taken oh so slight.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to read more
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.
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.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
