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Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more
But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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.
The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the read more
The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.
My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the read more
My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the other.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
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.
