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

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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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They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Adams

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. – Henry Adams

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

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My father was an autodidact. It wasnt a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education – he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasnt allowed to go. – Kate Atkinson

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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination. – Adam Weishaupt

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Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. – Roland Joffe

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I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what theyre doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth. – Evel Knievel

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