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    The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

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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?]

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

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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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Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

by William Blake Found in: Education Quotes,
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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.

by Anatole France Found in: Education Quotes,
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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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Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the read more

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.

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