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...Federal aid promotes the idea that federal school money is 'free' money, and thus gives the people a distorted picture of the cost of education. I was distressed to find that five out of six high school and junior college students recently interviewed in Phoenix said they favored federal aid because it would mean more money for local schools and ease the financial burden on Arizona taxpayers. The truth, of course, is that the federal government has no funds except those it extracts from the taxpayers who resided in the various States. The money that the federal government pays to State X for education has been taken from the citizens of State X in federal taxes and comes back to them, minus the Washington brokerage fee.
Barry Goldwater, Conscience of a
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
Francis Keppel
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Harvey S. Firestone
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli
The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
Paul E. Gray
Mentoring is all about people -- it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated -- concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.
Rene Carayol
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
George Eliot
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
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
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury
