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    Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

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Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.

by Frank Crane Found in: Education Quotes,
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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.

by Robert C. Savage Found in: Education Quotes,
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

by Hannah Arendt Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

by Francis Keppel Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.

by Hellen Keller Found in: Education Quotes,
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We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Education Quotes,
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How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math read more

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.

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