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| Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down. | John Kenneth Galbraith | 1908-, American Economist |
| The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. | John Locke | 1632-1704, British Philosopher |
| The aim of EDUCATION should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir. | John Mason | |
| Modern EDUCATION has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| The child who desires EDUCATION will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| The first condition of EDUCATION is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of EDUCATION. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| The worst EDUCATION which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. | John Sterling | American Sports Announcer |
| 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 |
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| America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. | John W. Gardner | 1912-, American Educator, Social Activist |
| I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at EDUCATION as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. | John W. Gardner | 1912-, American Educator, Social Activist |
| What sculpture is to a block of marble, EDUCATION is to an human soul. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true EDUCATION. | Joseph F. Smith | |
| EDUCATION is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. | Joseph Stalin | 1879-1953, Georgian-born Soviet Leader |
| EDUCATION is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. | Karl Kraus | 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist |
| The ultimate end of your EDUCATION was to make you a good wife. | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer |
| People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer |
| We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer |
| EDUCATION is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. | Laurence J. Peter | |
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| Two things reduce prejudice: EDUCATION and laughter. | Laurence J. Peter | |
| We must do better or perish as the nation we know today. | Lauro Cavazos | |
| Apply yourself. Get all the EDUCATION you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. | Lee Iacocca | 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysle |
| People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the EDUCATION you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just s | Lee Iacocca | 1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysle |
| No one wants a good EDUCATION. Everyone wants a good degree. | Lee Rudolph | |
| EDUCATION is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. | Lillian Smith | 1897-1966, American Author |
| 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 |
| Theories and goals of EDUCATION don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings. | Lou Ann Walker | |
| Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honours. | Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888, American Author |
| The purpose of EDUCATION is to replace an empty mind with an open one | Malcolm S. Forbes | 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman |
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| Without EDUCATION, you're not going anywhere in this world. | Malcolm X | 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist |
| The real object of EDUCATION is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. | Mandell Creighton | 1843-1901, British Historian, Bishop |
| Our attitude towards ourselves should be ''to be satiable in learning'' and towards others ''to be tireless in teaching.'' | Mao Zedong | 1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State |
| An EDUCATIONal method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as | Maria Montessori | 1870-1952, Italian Educator |
| The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not co | Maria Montessori | 1870-1952, Italian Educator |
| I have never let my schooling interfere with my EDUCATION. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Soap and EDUCATION are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a coll | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college EDUCATION. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. | Marshall Mcluhan | 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist |
| EDUCATION is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. | Martin H. Fischer | |
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| I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. | Martin Luther | 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reforma |
| The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal EDUCATION. | Maya Angelou | 1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer |
| EDUCATION helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. | Maya Angelou | 1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer |
| The greatest EDUCATION in the world is watching the masters at work. | Michael Jackson | 1958-, American Musician, Songwriter |
| Make your EDUCATIONal laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| In true EDUCATION, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| In the EDUCATION of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ''social worker'' -judge. | Michel Foucault | 1926-1984, French Essayist, Philosopher |
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