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- I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
- Bill Beattie
- Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
- Bishop Creighton
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Johnson
- Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist
- Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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