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All my life,
as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van
loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my
mind.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American
Essayist, Aphorist
An education
obtained with money is worse than no education at all
-- Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher
of Athens
Whom do I call
educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances
they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and
honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily
and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as
agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly
possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always
under control and are not ultimately overcome by their
misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes,
who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground
steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.
-- Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher
of Athens
To me
education is a leading out of what is already there in the
pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something
that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I
call it intrusion.
-- Muriel Spark
1918-, British Novelist
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