"Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves."
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"Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives."
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"A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief."
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"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize."
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"I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond."
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"There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity."
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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
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"Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter."
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"People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions."
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"Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense."
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"I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted."
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"In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world."
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"Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it."
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"The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge."
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"A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women."
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"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
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"The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true."
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"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."
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"Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment."
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