Henry Adams's Quote - Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance

Quote by Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams

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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

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I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams

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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. – Henry Adams

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Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. – Kathleen Blanco

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Im no politician. Im an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. – Stephen Ambrose

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Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it. – Melissa Bean

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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? – Barbara Ehrenreich

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