#schooling

I never let schooling interfere with my education. ↗

— Mark Twain

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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. ↗

— John Woolman

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A human life is a schooling for eternity. ↗

— Gottfried Keller

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. ↗

— Ray Kroc

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Cambridge exceeded our most macabre expectations ... the arm-chairs, the crumpets, the beautifully-bound eighteenth century volumes, the fires roaring in stoked grates. Each of us had the loan of an absent undergraduate's rooms - bedroom, sitting-room and pantry; all fitted up in a style which, after the spartan simplicity of a public school study, seemed positively sinful. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

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The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. ↗

— David O. McKay

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Education is a system of imposed ignorance. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. ↗

— Ezra Taft Benson

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