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"The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience."
"Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink."
"The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught."
"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."
"You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all."
"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail."
"When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree."
"In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing."
"I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity."
"What we do not understand we do not possess."
"The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense."
"The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education."
"We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate."
"When schools flourish, all flourishes."
"One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery."
"Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!"
"Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations."
"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."
"Education can no longer be the sole property of the state."
"A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States."
