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- The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.
- Gunnar Myrdal
- The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is; to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.
- Otto Kleppner
- The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.
- Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
- Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
- Albert Edward Wiggam
- Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
- If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!
- Andy McIntyre
- Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
- A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
- Baron Henry Peter Brougham
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