How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.
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Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth read more
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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 aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
