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Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.

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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

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The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

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The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

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I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

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Knowledge exists to be imparted.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

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The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

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