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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.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the read more
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.
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.
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.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step read more
Violent can be sound and light
in waking us from sleep of night.
Gently comes the dawn's twilight
Each step taken oh so slight.
Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.
Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
