Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. – Bryant H. McGill

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I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon. – Mitt Romney

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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle Ive been fighting so hard to have an education. Its been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult. – Emma Watson

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By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. – John Dryden

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One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if its very complex, its very profound. – Dennis Prager

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