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To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which read more
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.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., read more
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
