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~ Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. ~

~ The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. ~

~ Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little he can for his money. ~

Max Forman

~ The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. ~

Henry Brooks Adams

~ Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~

G. M. Trevelyan

~ A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. ~

John Ruskin

~ They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing. ~

Douglas Yates

~ The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. ~

John Dewey

~ Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. ~

Walter Bagehot

~ In England … education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ 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

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