EDUCATION EDUCATION
Quod enim munus reipubliexe afEerre majus, mefiusve poasumus. quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem? What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? Cicero—De Divinatione. II. 2. </poem>
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Cowpek—Progress of Error. L. 410.
The foundation of every state is the education
of its youth.
Diogenes. (According to Stob^eus}})
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| text = <poem>The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn
peculiarities.
Isaac DTsbaeli—Literary Character. Ch. VI.
By education most have been misled.
Dbyden—Hind and Panther. Pt. III. L. 389.
My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the
other.
Tradition well established that James A. Garfield used the phrase at a New York Alumni Dinner in 1872. No such words are
found, however. A letter of his, Jan., 1872,
contains the same line of thought.
Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.
Gay—The Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and
the Farmer. To a Mother. L. 9.
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| text = Of course everybody likes and respects selfmade men. It is a great deal better to be made
in that way than not to be made at all.
Holmes—The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
L. 1.
The true purpose of education is to cherish and
unfold the seed of immortality already sown
within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the
capacities of every kind with which the God who
made us has endowed us.
Mbs. Jameson—Education. Winter Studies
and Summer Rambles.
Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
But it was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all,
that the destiny of the free republics of America
was practically settled.
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| work = Among my Books. New England
Two Centuries Ago.
tty, education alone can conduct us to
that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality
and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann—Lectures and Reports on Education. Lecture 1.
Enflamed with the study of learning, and the
admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes
of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots,
dear to God, and famous to all ages.
MiLTON^-Tract on Education.
Der preussiche Schulmeister hat die Schlacht
bei Sadowa gewonnen.
The Prussian schoolmaster won the battle
of Sadowa.
Von Moltke—In the Reichstag, Feb. 16, 1874.
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| text = Tempore ruricolas patiens fit taurus aratri.
In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.
Ovid—Tristia. 4. 6. 1. Trans, by Thomas
Watson. Hecatompathia. No. 47.
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| text = <poem>The victory of the Prussians over the Austrians
was a victory of the Prussian over the Austrian
schoolmaster.
Privy Councillor Peschel, in Ausland, No.
19. July 17, 1866.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep,
controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
Wendell Phillips—Speeches. Idols.
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Lambendo paulatim figurant.
Licking a cub into shape. (Free rendering.)
Pliny—Nat. Hist. VIII. 36.
So watchful Bruin forms with plastic care,
Each growing lump and brings it to a bear.
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Then take him to develop, if you can
And hew the block off, and get out the man.
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| work = Dunciad. IV. 269. A notion of
Aristotle's that there was originally in
every block of marble, a statue, which
would appear on the removal of the superfluous parts. See The Spectator.
Tis education forms the common mind;
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
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| work = Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 149.
Twelve years ago I made a mock
Of filthy trades and traffics;
I considered what they meant by stock;
I wrote delightful sapphics;
I knew the streets of Rome and Troy,
I supped with Fates and Fairies—
Twelve years ago I was a boy,
A happy bqy at Drury's.
W. M. Praed—School and Schoolfellows.
He can write and read and cast accompt.
O monstrous!
We took him setting of boys' copies.
Here's a villain!
Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 92.
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Much Ado About Nothing. Act I. Sc. 1. Quoted from Kyd—Spanish Trageily. Act II. Found in Dodsley's collection.
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