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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.
My education was interrupted only by my schooling
My education was interrupted only by my schooling
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
