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December 21, 2015 by Avogadro Mole

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
~Norman Douglas

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
~Albert Einstein

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
~Norman Douglas

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~B. F. Skinner

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~Malcolm Forbes

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
~Al McGuire

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
~Mark Twain

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
~Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa for the win

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My Favorite Quotes

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

— Charles Kingsley

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