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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., read more
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the read more
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation
of character.
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training read more
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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.
