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The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child’s unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace Picture Quote #1

It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race’s great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam Picture Quote #1

Education for immediate effective consumption is more popular than ever, and nobody wants to think of the long term, or the intellectual tone of the nation Picture Quote #1

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated Picture Quote #1

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education Picture Quote #1

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The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child’s unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with its systematic formulas, and away goes the individual, hurtling through space into that hateful oblivion of mediocrity. We are pruned into stumps, one resembling another, without character or grace (Popular Education Quotes) It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes it. All genuine education is self-education. It will incite the individual to think for himself, by rethinking what the race’s great thinkers have already thought for him, thus enabling him to go ahead under his own mental steam (Popular Education Quotes) Education for immediate effective consumption is more popular than ever, and nobody wants to think of the long term, or the intellectual tone of the nation. (Popular Education Quotes) The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated. (Popular Education Quotes) To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education (Popular Education Quotes)