Education

(51 votes)   A draftsman of words.

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

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(51 votes)   Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.

Samuel Butler

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(51 votes)   Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(51 votes)   Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(51 votes)   The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education

Paul Karl Feyerabend

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(51 votes)   The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Robert M. Hutchins
1899-1977, American University President

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(51 votes)   The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Jean Piaget
1896-1980, Swiss Experimenters and Theorists

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(50 votes)   Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''

Eliza Cook
1818-1889, British Poet

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(50 votes)   School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

John Updike
1932-, American Novelist, Critic

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(50 votes)   Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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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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(49 votes)   We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Remy De Gourmont
1858-1915, French Novelist, Philosopher, Poet, Playwright

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(48 votes)   It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author

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(47 votes)   I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

Franz Kafka
1883-1924, German Novelist, Short-Story Writer

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(47 votes)   If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?

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