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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.
'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
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.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the read more
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation
of character.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.