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• The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas.
  ot to prepare them for a specific job....
• What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)...
• What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind
  o train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others....
• Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm S. Forbe
• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one Malcom Forbe
• College and university education should be free for all students, fully financed by the government.
• A formal education can sometimes be broadening but more often merely flattens. -- Edward Abbey
• Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.
  All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests....