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“Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.”
Horace Mann quotes (US educator, the first great American advocate of public education, 1796-1859)
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“The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
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“The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.”
John Ruskin quotes (English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900)
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“Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow”

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“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it”
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“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
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“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.”
Bill Beattie quotes (American manager and coach)
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“The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.”
Bishop Creighton quotes (American bishop)
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“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
wolfdyke B. B. King quotes (American musician, b.1925)
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“Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
John Dewey quotes (American Philosopher, Psychologist and Educator, 1859-1952)
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“Education is a vaccine for violence.”
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