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— H. L. Mencken"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality."
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The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
— Elliot W. Eisner
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Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.
— Maria Montessori
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