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    It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

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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.

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art read more

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.

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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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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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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure read more

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.

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