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American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girlsmight be sent to be out of the wayand scramblethemselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.
Men have everyadvantage of us in telling their story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.
The test and use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of the mind.
A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ask me my three main priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
Education is the taming or demonstration of the soul's raw passionsnot suppressing them or excising them, whichwould deprivethesoul of its energybutforming and informing them as art.
If you think education is expensivetry ignorance.
The most fundamental value of a liberal education isthat it makes life more interesting.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.
Aye,'tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an
If neither governesses or mothers know, how can they teach? So long as education is not provided for them, how can it be provided by them?
Education is impossible without love, without loving a few of the great men of the past.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Sometimes it seems the onlyaccomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they so were bred. The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
Education is what remains, if one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
There is much to be said for apathy in education.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
The Frenchhad a moremartial air thanthe English.There seemed to be a species of military instinct in all classes. No young man appeared to have finished his education till after a bloody campaign They were at this singular period, without the least exaggeration, a century behind us in notions of legal and moral responsibility.
[There is] a delusion that macro-economics is both viableanduseful (a delusionencouraged by its extensive use of mathematics, which must always impress politicians lacking any mathematical education, and which is really the nearest thing to the practice of magic that occurs among professional economists).
Education is another sun to the educated.
College football is a sport that bears thesame relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Life isn't all beer and skittlesbut beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.
Science is the reduction of the bewildering diversity of unique events to manageable uniformity within one of a number of symbol systems, and technology is the art of using thesesymbol systemssoastocontrol and organize unique events. Scientific observation is always a viewing of things through the refracting medium of a symbol system, and technological praxis is always handling of things in ways that some symbol system has dictated. Education in science and technology is essentially education on the symbol level.
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.
That the whole or any part of the education of the people should be in State hands, I go so far as anyone in deprecating A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another.
It is the business of education to eliminate the influence of parents on the life-chances of the young.
Real education must ultimately be limited to one who on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
L'e ducation de l'homme commence a' sa naissance; avant de parler, avant que d'entendre, il s'instruit de ja' . A man's education begins when he is born; before speaking, before understanding, he is already teaching himself.
Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.
Me having no education, I had to use my brains.
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.
Soap and education are not as suddenas a massacre, but theyare more deadly in the long run.
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
There aren't many left like him nowadays, what with education and whisky the price it is.
Humanhistory becomesmoreand morea racebetween education and catastrophe.
I saw in my own education some of the things which eat the power out of women. Wharton
In a political point of view, nothing can possiblyafford greater stability to a popular Government than the education of the people.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloomisgone.Thewholetheoryof moderneducationis radically unsound. Fortunately, in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
I can't do with any more education. I was full up years ago.
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