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"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." Oscar Wilde 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them." Buckminster Fuller 3.92857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing." Ralph Waldo Emerson 3.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live." Oliver Wendell Holmes 3.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." Kurt Vonnegut 3.66666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally." William Jennings Bryan 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard." Robert Frost 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching." Oscar Wilde 2.54166666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world." Dick Cheney 1.90909090909091 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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