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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren G. Bennis

If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you’d see a lot more kids staying in school.

Wayne Knight

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Will Durant

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Will Rogers

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Will Rogers

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

William Adams

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards — the things we live by and teach our children — are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt(er) Elias Disney

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Walter Bagehot

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Walter Savage Landor

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Victor Hugo

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