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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
MARK TWAIN, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
TOM STOPPARD, The Invention of Love
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- 'Tis education forms the common mind,
- Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE, Moral Essays
Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Journal
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
TOM STOPPARD, The Invention of Love
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCE, The Educator's Book of Quotes
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with torture called education.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech, Jul. 4, 1924
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G.M. TREVELYAN, English Social History
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
HENRY PETER BROUGHAM
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. WELLS, The Outline of History
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
JOHN MILTON, Of Education
Only the educated are free.
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