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| Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.' | | Charlotte Bronte | |
| Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is | | Isaac Asimov | |
| She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life. | | John Mason Brown | |
| Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance | | Will Durant | |
| Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. | | Plato | |
| The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. | | William James | |
| The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life | | Plato | |
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| The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. | | Alfred Adler | |
| The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge. | | John Ruskin | |
| The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. | | John Ruskin | |
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| The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. | | Norman Cousins | |
| The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
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| The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. | | Plato | |
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