Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

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Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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It is our American habit, if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory, to add another story or a wing.
It is our American habit, if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory, to add another story or a wing. – John Dewey

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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

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