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Quotations by Subject: Education (60 quotes)

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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.: Abraham Flexner (1866 - 1959), Universities, part 3, 1930
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Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency.: William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879), The Purpose of Education, Maroon Tiger, January-February 1947
Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.: Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)

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