Elbert Hubbard Quotes on Education
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By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing-'Carry a message to Garcia!'
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books. [Pg. 160.]
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College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think.