Quote by Tryon Edwards
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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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. – Tryon Edwards

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Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. – Malcolm Forbes

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