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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're read more
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation read more
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to read more
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
