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Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born is Tarsus, a city in
Cilicia, yet brought up read more
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born is Tarsus, a city in
Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and
taught according to the perfect manner of the fathers, and was
zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both read more
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a read more
Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this
age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the
soldier, in full military array.
