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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.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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.
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,
Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,
