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    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.

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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.

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An educated people can be easily governed.

An educated people can be easily governed.

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.

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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of read more

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

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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.

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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.

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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a read more

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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