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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's read more
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
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.
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.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.
Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
