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    Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

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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.

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Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

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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, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.

Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.

by Leonard L. Levinson Found in: Education Quotes,
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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 commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the read more

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation
of character.

by Hosea Ballou Found in: Education Quotes,
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An educated people can be easily governed.

An educated people can be easily governed.

by Frederick The Great Found in: Education Quotes,
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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still read more

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

by Sir John Lubbock Found in: Education Quotes,
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