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    We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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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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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

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My education was interrupted only by my schooling

My education was interrupted only by my schooling

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Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that read more

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at
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Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

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