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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate
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- Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
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- The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
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True education means fostering the ability to be interested in something.
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- Not for life, but for school do we learn.
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"Good teaching comes from good people."
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- Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
- Ludwig Von Mises, Liberalism,
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- I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
- Petronius, Satyricon
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- I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
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- Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
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- I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.
- Sigrid Undset, 1928 Nobel Prize in literature
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- There is not, perhaps, in the kingdom, a more dogmatical, or luxurious set of men, than the pedantic tyrants who reside in colleges and preside at public schools.
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- The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions.
- Ludwig Von Mises, Liberalism
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- An education established and controlled by the State should only exist, if it exists at all, as one among many competing
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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- "Therefore I praise New England because it is the country in the world where is the freest expenditure for education. ..., namely, that the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will: not alone in the elements, but, by further provision, in the languages, in sciences, in the useful and in elegant arts. The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge, and, at last, the ripest results of art and science.
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- Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.
- Martin Luther, 152
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- Lycurgus," says Plutarch, "resolved the whole business of legislation into the bringing up of youth." When our legislators shall have learnt wisdom from the Spartan, they will acquire, as he acquired, the power of remoulding the national character.
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Highly sophisticated Élites are the easiest and least original thing a society can produce. The most difficult and the most valuable is a well-educated populace."
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- Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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- But to go to school in a summer morn,
- William Blake, The Schoolboy
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
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- Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Attributed to Lord Brougham.
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- No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.
- Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
- Miguel de Cervantes,
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- What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
- Cicero,
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- The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
- Diogenes (according to Stobæus).
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- Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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- Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
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- Der preussiche Schulmeister hat die Schlacht bei Sadowa gewonnen.
- The Prussian schoolmaster won the battle of Sadowa.
- Von Moltke,
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08 May 08
Dante-Gabryell MonsonChildren are naturally expressive but they go to school and get it taught out of them.
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