Education

(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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(59 votes)   It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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(58 votes)   It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

Finley Peter Dunne
1867-1936, American Journalist, Humorist

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(58 votes)   What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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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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(56 votes)   The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.

John Mason

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(56 votes)   To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

A. A. Milne

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

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(55 votes)   I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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(53 votes)   Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

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(53 votes)   The fact we must remember is that we are educating students for a world that will not be ours but will be theirs. Give them a chance to be heard.

Dr. Carlos P. Romulo

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(53 votes)   The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

Marshall Mcluhan
1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist

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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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(52 votes)   In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(52 votes)   Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

Sir. John Templeton

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