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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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.
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
Education: A debt due from present to future generations.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed read more
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.
