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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. – Tryon Edwards

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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards

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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both. – Tryon Edwards

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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. – Tryon Edwards

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