Quote by Ernest Renan
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archi

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. – Ernest Renan

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. – Herbert Spencer

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Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People dont always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. – Caroline Kennedy

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Im essentially a mommas boy with a good education. – Tom Sizemore

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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. – John W. Gardner

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