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We are shut up
in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen
years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and
do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and
colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
There is a
time in every man's education when he arrives at the
conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is
suicide.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
I pay the
schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
The secret in
education lies in respecting the student.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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