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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Nature has always had more force than education.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math read more
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more
But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.
