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Education Quotes... R
“The
secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you
can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this
all other education is good for nothing.”
R. D. Hitchcock
“We
are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and
recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with
a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There
is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction
that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I
pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We
are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen
years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know
a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an
education, but the means of education.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One
of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little
avail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“They
say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What
they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.”
Richard Yates
“Most
people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.”
Robert C. Savage
“If
you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the
university has failed you.”
Robert F. Goheen
“Education is the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
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