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 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. 
 Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a 
great deal better to be made in that read more 
 Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a 
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at 
all. 
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.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth read more
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's read more
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Adams.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
 How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
 Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.  
 How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
 Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.