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“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.”
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“That best academy, a mother's knee.”
“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
“Education is the best provision for old age.”
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ”
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
“Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
“The time indeed is at hand when systematic lectures on food will be part of medical education, when the value of feeding in disease is admitted to be as important as the administration of medicines.”
“Only the educated are free.”
“The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.”
“Education has for its object the formation of character.”
“We want to stop putting contracts first, and we want to start putting the kids and their education first.”
“I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.”
“At the tea, each friend of education receives a certificate of appreciation from the student that choose them.”
“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.”
“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
“Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”
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