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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.
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.
Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation read more
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need read more
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use read more
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
