Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in read more
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to read more
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
