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  • "People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have."
    By: Holt, John
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  • "The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
    By: Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell
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  • "But we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation. A liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves. To be educated to freedom must be evidenced in action..."
    By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
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  • "Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."
    By: Hill, Napoleon
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  • "Education is the ability to meet life's situations."
    By: Hibben, Dr. John G.
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  • "Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!"
    By: Herzen, Alexander
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  • "What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
    By: Henry David Thoreau
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  • "Education consists of example and love--nothing else."
    By: Heinrich Pestalozzi
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  • "Education is the art of making man ethical."
    By: Hegel, Georg
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  • "Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."
    By: Hazlitt, William
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  • "Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone."
    By: Hannah, John A.
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  • "Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."
    By: Haley, Sir William
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  • "We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century."
    By: H. G. Wells
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  • "America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering."
    By: Graham, Billy
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  • "We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence."
    By: Gourmont, Remy De
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  • "They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."
    By: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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