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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. – George Bernard Shaw

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett

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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. – Ralph W. Sockman

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