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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con read more
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
