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The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what read more
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
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.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math read more
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to read more
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
