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Education is the transmission of civilization.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
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.
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
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"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
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.
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.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
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.
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela read more
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt.
