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If nobody
dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college
graduates?
-- Source Unknown
School is
where you go between when your parents can't take you, and
industry can't take you.
-- John Updike
1932-, American Novelist,
Critic
If our
education had included training to bear unpleasantness and
to let the first shock pass until we could think more
calmly, many an unbearable situation would become
manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is
proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel
thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we
must break our head.
-- Claire Weeks
The most
important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
-- Simone Weil
1910-1943, French
Philosopher, Mystic
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There is that
indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an
illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the
noblest expressive genius.
-- Walt Whitman
1819-1892, American Poet
No pain that
we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It
ministers to the development of such qualities as patience,
faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all
that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently,
builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our
souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy
to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow
and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the
education that we come here to acquire and which will make
us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.
-- Orson F. Whitney
Education is
an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
The whole
theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately
in England, at any rate, education produces no effect
whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to
the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
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