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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which read more
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every read more
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.