Quote by Jean Giraudoux
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. – Jean Giraudoux

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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. – Jean Giraudoux

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We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home. – Francois Hollande

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If the Liberals law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. – Stockwell Day

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Health and education are always issues. – Helen Clark

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A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear – which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks youll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers. – Michael Morpurgo

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Millions of dollars worth of advertising shows such little respect for the readers intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. – James Randolph Adams

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The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country. – Dennis Miller

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