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- Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
- Baron Henry Peter Brougham
- The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
- Harlan Ellison.
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
- It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- It's only by amusing oneself that one can learn.
- Edward Kasner and James R. Newman
- Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
- Arnold Edinborough
- A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
- Bob Edwards
- If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality.
- Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H.G. Wells
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