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“I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
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“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
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“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
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“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”
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