"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

Everett, Edward on education
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"Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."

Hazlitt, William on education
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"Much learning does not teach understanding."

Heraclitus on education
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"Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!"

Herzen, Alexander on education   

"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."

Hill, Napoleon on education
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"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on education
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"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."

Houston, Sam on education
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"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."

Hubbard, Elbert on education
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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Hugo, Victor on education
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"The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."

Hutchins, Robert M. on education
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"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."

Hutchins, Robert M. on education
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"Education is the art of making man ethical."

Hegel, Georg on education
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"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."

Haley, Sir William on education
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"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education."

Gray, Paul E. on education
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"Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality."

Fielding, Henry on education
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"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."

Fischer, Martin H. on education
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"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one"

Forbes, Malcolm S. on education
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"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."

Forster, Edward M. on education
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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."

France, Anatole on education
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"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

France, Anatole on education
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"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."

Franklin, Benjamin on education
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"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

Frost, Robert on education
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"We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least."

Gardner, David P. on education
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"They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on education
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly."

Huxley, Thomas H. on education
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"The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet."

Mcginley, Phyllis on education
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

Twain, Mark on prayer
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"Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon."

Twain, Mark on preachers and preaching
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"Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season."

Twain, Mark on principles   

"If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."

Sherman, William T. on politics   

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys it is all hell."

Sherman, William T. on glory   

"Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."

Sherman, William T. on courage   

"I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."

Sherman, William T. on courage   

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir."

Mason, John L. on education
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"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

Mann, Horace on education
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"Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Mann, Horace on education
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