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    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.

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Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

by George Peabody Found in: Education Quotes,
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Education Quotes,
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn read more

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

by Edward Everett Found in: Education Quotes,
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The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action

by Herbert Spencer Found in: Education Quotes,
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

by Theodore Roosevelt Found in: Education Quotes,
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A child miseducated is a child lost.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

by John F. Kennedy Found in: Education Quotes,
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The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

by Bill Beattie Found in: Education Quotes,
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