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    It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.

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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

by Will Rogers Found in: Education Quotes,
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can read more

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.

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Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."

Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."

by Matthew Arnold Found in: Education Quotes,
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Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever read more

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

by John A. Hannah Found in: Education Quotes,
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

by R.s. Ingersoll Found in: Education Quotes,
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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

by Anne Sullivan Found in: Education Quotes,
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