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    Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

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Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

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Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

by Ambrose Bierce Found in: Education Quotes,
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Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can read more

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.

by Mark Twain Found in: Education Quotes,
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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.

by Malcolm S. Forbes Found in: Education Quotes,
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

by Karl Kraus Found in: Education Quotes,
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Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."

Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."

by Matthew Arnold Found in: Education Quotes,
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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

by John Ruskin Found in: Education Quotes,
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

by Carl Jung Found in: Education Quotes,
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