Education

(34 votes)   The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Paul E. Gray

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(33 votes)   Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

Ludwig von Mises

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(32 votes)   Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

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(32 votes)   Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

Albert Edward Wiggam

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(32 votes)   The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

J. Frank Doble
1888-1964, American Author

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(32 votes)   We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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(32 votes)   You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(31 votes)   Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

Robert C. Savage

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(31 votes)   The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Bishop Mandell Creighton

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(31 votes)   The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(31 votes)   There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified educations is testimony to the fact that their proponents cannot bring about what they want in a mind that is free. An education that cannot do its work in a free mind, and so must teach by homily and precept in the service of these feelings and attitudes and beliefs rather than those, is pure and unmistakable tyranny.

Richard Mitchell

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(30 votes)   Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

Sir Claus Moser
1922-, German-born British Academic, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford

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(30 votes)   Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Deborah Meier

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(30 votes)   If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and nutty. You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.

Rev. Ivan Stang

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(30 votes)   The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

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