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“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.”

Knows Men Should Father Education Strange Genius Circumstances Paid Bills Prepared Practicals Items

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.'”

Men Mind Desire Father President Education Democracy Security Genius Acknowledge Republic Texas Dictator Guardian Free Man

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.”

“Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.”

Men Education Talent Genius Track Beaten Classical Education

Book:His Masterpiece: Works Of Zola

Source: His Masterpiece: Works Of Zola

“Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.”

Wells May Individual Education Wonder Genius

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.”

Ends Age Sides Education Produce Genius Indispensable

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.”

Heart Education Teach Fire Youth College Genius Office Elements Aim Various Flames Halls Rays Indispensable Drills

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

Certain Education Talent Genius Curiosity Intellect Curious Permanent Characteristics Vigorous Lexicographer

Author:Samuel Johnson

“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.”

Knows Truth Funny Literature Education History Genius Dunces True Genius

Author:Jonathan Swift

“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”

Persons Education Genius Humble Stupidity Expressive Illiterate Freshness Unconsciousness Leaves Of Grass Indescribable Illiterate Person

Book:Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition

Source: Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition

“The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”

Men Language Education Genius Offers Chaos Behaviorism

Book:WALDEN TWO

Source: WALDEN TWO

“True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.”

Education Talent Genius Individuality Inequality Glorious True Education

Author:Felix Schelling

“Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.”

Education Learning Teacher Particular Genius Foundation Programming

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.”

Inspirational Should Opportunity Education Teaching Talent Genius Equal Should Have Educational Nurturing Equal Opportunity Education And Teachers Quality Education

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

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