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"We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own."
"I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded."
"I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education."
"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."
"All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge."
"A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself."
"There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe."
"They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."
"The human mind is our fundamental resource."
"I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture."
"Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated."
"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain."
"Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature."
"Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it."
"We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world."
"Education should be the handmaid of citizenship."
"School is not the end but only the beginning of an education."
"A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it."
"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."
