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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.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
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.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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.
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training read more
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.