“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.”
— H. G. Wells
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“I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.”
— Steve Case
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“I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.”
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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“Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.”
— Frederick William Robertson
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“Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.”
— Joel Coen
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“I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.”
— Billy Sunday
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“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
— Edward Everett
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“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
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“Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
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“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.”
— David Hume
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