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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
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.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
