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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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  • "Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."
    By: Giraudoux, Jean
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  • "Most owners of small businesses openly state that they believe in the value of skills and operational training. However, they also admit that they themselves undertake very little training, or offer only limited training to their employees, because of time restraints."
    By: Gerstenhaber, Moshe
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  • "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Proverbs 22:6]"
    By: Bible
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  • "America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive."
    By: Gardner, John W.
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  • "We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least."
    By: Gardner, David P.
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  • "Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
    By: G.M. Trevelyan
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  • "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
    By: G.K. Chesterton
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  • "No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."
    By: G.K. Chesterton
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  • "What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."
    By: Fuller, R. Buckminster
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  • "Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process."
    By: Fuller, R. Buckminster
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  • "Education is hanging around until you've caught on."
    By: Frost, Robert
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  • "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight train, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad."
    By: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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  • "Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
    By: Forster, Edward M.
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  • "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."
    By: Fischer, Martin H.
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  • "Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality."
    By: Fielding, Henry
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