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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic read more
It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good read more
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation read more
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get read more
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
