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 Impartially their talents scan,
 Just education forms the man.
   - John Gay,  
 Impartially their talents scan,
 Just education forms the man.
   - John Gay, 
 My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log 
and a student on the read more 
 My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log 
and a student on the other. 
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.
We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
 Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; 
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.  
 Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; 
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. 
 Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this 
age. There is another personage,--a read more 
 Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this 
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in 
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is 
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the 
soldier, in full military array. 
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.