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Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.
NBNachman of Bratslav
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While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.
Clarence Thomasborn 1948Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book Three, Part II, Chapter XXI: Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century, p. 722.
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Decay of Lying (1889), Spoken by “Vivian.”
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.
WFWilliam Feather1889–1981Often credited to Malcolm Forbes
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes1919–1990
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cat’s Cradle (1963), Chapter 18
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell1903–1950“In Front of Your Nose,” Tribune (22 March 1946)
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 215 (6 November 1711)
If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung1875–1961
- Failure
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda
Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
Charles Darwin1809–1882
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