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“Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.”

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Book:The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism

Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism

“Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future--all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another--knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.”

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Book:Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

“We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”

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Author:Charles Kettering

“There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

“An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.”

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Author:Alan K. Simpson

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

“The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.”

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Author:Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!”

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Author:Robert Browning

“The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun