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- Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
- Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
- superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
- College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
J. Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
- That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.
J. Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
- Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880
- A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
- She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969)
- Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. Henderson
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