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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Ilya Ehrenburg

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

E. D. Hirsch

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

Milton R. Sapirstein

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

B. F. Skinner

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

William Lyon Phelps

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

John Mason Brown

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.

Gail Godwin

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Ray Blount, Jr.

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Love Quote

Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.

- Katharine Hepburn

Life Quote

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

Life Quote

Count your age by friends, not years Count your life by smiles, not tears.

- John Lennon

Life Quote

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

- Bruce Lee

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The strongest evidence of love is sacrifice.

- Caroline Fry

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