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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner 
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Robert M. Hutchins
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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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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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