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- To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Morals
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
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The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
R. D. Hitchcock
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A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
Reverend Edward A. Malloy, Monk's Reflections
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
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