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No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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.
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
