She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

—John Mason Brown

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John Mason Brown (July 3, 1900 – March 16, 1969) was an American drama critic and author.

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He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

—John Mason Brown

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

That's what college is for—getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.

—Jeph Jacques

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

—James A. Garfield

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

—Herbert Spencer

Education has for its object the formation of character.

—Herbert Spencer

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