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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

Alexander Pope Topic: Education

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

William J Bennett Topic: Education

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Paul Karl Feyerabend Topic: Education

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats Topic: Education

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Ben Franklin Topic: Education

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

R S Ingersoll Topic: Education

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Topic: Education

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles Topic: Education

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

George Macaulay Trevelyan Topic: Education

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Topic: Education

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Topic: Education

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Ezra Loomis Pound Topic: Education

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Elbert Green Hubbard Topic: Education

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Topic: Education

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau Topic: Education

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

Robert M MacIver Topic: Education

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

John Maynard Keynes Topic: Education

No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

Lee Rudolph Topic: Education

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

Anne Sullivan Topic: Education

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Martin H Fischer Topic: Education

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