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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
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.
An educated people can be easily governed.
An educated people can be easily governed.
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 intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
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.
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
