Education

(84 votes)   A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(95 votes)   A child miseducated is a child lost.

John F. Kennedy

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(57 votes)   A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

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(51 votes)   A draftsman of words.

E. E. Cummings
(Edward E.) 1894-1962, American Poet

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(45 votes)   A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

Brander Matthews

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(49 votes)   A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

James B. Stockdale

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(66 votes)   A man is but what he knoweth.

Francis Bacon

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(122 votes)   According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(52 votes)   Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist

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(79 votes)   All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(99 votes)   All of life is a constant education.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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(60 votes)   America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

Billy Graham
1918-, American Evangelist

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(80 votes)   America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(241 votes)   An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(66 votes)   An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

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