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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.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of read more
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do read more
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.
If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
