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“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

Work Education Talking Liberty Greater Ignorance Failure Ignorant Live Life Poor Richard Blockheads Being Ignorant

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.”

Ifs States Facts Education Greater Willing Promise Lays Profession Engaged

Book:Isocrates

Source: Isocrates

“Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.”

Ifs Years Today School Ability Money Education Millions Greater Youth College High School Increase Educate Graduates 1960s Graduating High School Enrollment Today's Youth

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]”

Education Teach Greater Youth Offers Republic

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.”

People Hands Education Issues Greater Complexes Simplicity Educated Misfortunes Unfortunate Uneducated

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.”

People Knows Children Doe Past Young Understanding Education Knowing Greater Information Variety Gaps Exposed Sophisticated Experience And Learning Knowing And Understanding

Author:David Elkind

“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”

Wealth Money Education Greater Teacher Teaching Adversity Personal Growth Prosperity Great Teacher Teacher Motivational

Book:Sketches and Essays

Source: Sketches and Essays

“In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.”

Has Beens Done Church Education Greater Difficulty Regard Legislature Clergymen

Author:John Strachan

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.”

Men Made Differences Education Greater Brutes

Book:The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.”

School Education History Greater Honor American Dream Public School Aggravation Affectionate

Book:Addresses Upon the American Road

Source: Addresses Upon the American Road