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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more
Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure read more
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the read more
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con read more
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.