Quote by George Orwell
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be succes

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. – George Orwell

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. – George Orwell

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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. – George Orwell

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For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. – Thomas Frank

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My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. – Matt Damon

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May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. – Joseph Lancaster

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. – Plato

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