What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258