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Historical literature

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

1942

★ 0.9

To trust your intuition is exactly the opposite of any sort of formal education.

1993

★ 0.9

By education most have been misled.

The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts · 1687

★ 1.1

Autobiography and memoir

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The Education of Henry Adams · 1907

★ 1.1

Autobiography and memoir

I was told that desire for learning in women was against the will of God.

1937

★ 1.1

Speech · Commencement address

Education is... A two-edged sword that can be used either for the progress of mankind or for its destruction.

Haile Selassie I

1963

★ 1.1

One thing that I really like about teaching is that you have to work very hard not to lose the respect of your students.

2013

★ 1.1

Novel · Magazine

The mind of the thoroughly well informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 1.2

We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.

1900

★ 1.3

The highest result of education is tolerance.

1903

★ 1.3

Philosophical literature

To pursue it is to be human, to give it up is to be a beast.

250 BC

★ 1.3

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Moralia · 100

★ 1.3

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 1.3

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty · 1859

★ 1.3

Historical literature

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

1920

★ 1.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Crime (film) · Coming of age · Crime

I was getting two educations: One from the street and one from school. That way I’d be twice as smart as everybody.

Calogero Anello

A Bronx Tale · 1993

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

You don't need a certificate. Just do it or not do it.

Lawrence Weiner

Interview Magazine · 2015

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.

Proverbs 4:13

686 BC

★ 1.9

What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a Human Soul.

1711

★ 1.9

Education makes us what we are.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

1758

★ 1.9

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