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Quote by William James
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. – William James

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James

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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James

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Nature has always had more force than education. – Voltaire

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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel. – Yakov Smirnoff

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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports. – Mahesh Bhupathi

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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. – Daniel Webster

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