Education

(97 votes)   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.

Phyllis Mcginley
1905-1978, American Poet, Author

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

John F. Kennedy

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(94 votes)   Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(91 votes)   The future belongs to those who prepare for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(90 votes)   The glory of God is inteligence, or, in other words, light and truth. D&C 93:36

Doctrine & Covenants

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(89 votes)   The education of a man is never complete until he dies.

Robert E. Lee
1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander

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(88 votes)   Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(87 votes)   Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence J. Peter

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(86 votes)   The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Ayn Rand

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(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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(84 votes)   Whatever principle of inteligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection. D&C 130:18

Doctrine & Covenants

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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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(80 votes)   Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright

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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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(79 votes)   Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

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