Education

(78 votes)   The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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(78 votes)   What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

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(77 votes)   Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Omar Nelson Bradley
1893-1981, American General

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(76 votes)   People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(74 votes)   We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(73 votes)   Study and learn, and become acquainted with all good books, and with languages, tongues, and people.

Doctrine & Covenants

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(70 votes)   Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

Camille Paglia
1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator

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(70 votes)   Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(70 votes)   Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(69 votes)   He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

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(68 votes)   The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

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(68 votes)   They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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

Francis Bacon

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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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(66 votes)   Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

G. K. Chesterton

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