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"Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done."

Jacques Barzun on Knowledge

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  • "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

    Albert Einstein on Knowledge

  • "Information is not knowledge."

    Albert Einstein on Knowledge

  • "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

    Marcus Garvey on Knowledge

  • "Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

    Albert Einstein on Knowledge

  • "Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

    William Shakespeare on Knowledge

More quotes by Jacques Barzun

  • "The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."

  • "Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice."

  • "Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done."

  • "It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence."

  • "Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."

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