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    Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.

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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. read more

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.

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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.

by James Madison Found in: Education Quotes,
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By education most have been misled.

By education most have been misled.

by John Dryden 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 do know and what you don't.

by Anatole France Found in: Education Quotes,
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.

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What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is not received. It is achieved.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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