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If education
is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of
a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be
hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is
the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total
development lags behind?
-- Maria Montessori
1870-1952, Italian Educator
The wretch who
digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed,
feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot
think or read.
-- Hannah More
1745-1833, British Writer,
Reformer, Philanthropist
Education
costs money, but then so does ignorance.
-- Sir Claus Moser
1922-, German-born British
Academic, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford
In large
states public education will always be mediocre, for the
same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually
bad.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
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Education has
become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not
the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
-- Camille Paglia
1947-, American Author,
Critic, Educator
Education is
not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for
the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of
spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth
and the practice of virtue.
-- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
1900-1990, Indian Diplomat
Education is a
method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-- Laurence J. Peter
The best
education in the world is that got by struggling to get a
living.
-- Wendell Phillips
1811-1884, American Reformer,
Orator
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