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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams
Education, Teaching, Ignorance
'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

Henry Adams
Teaching, Tiresome
Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1577, Open Road Media

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

Henry Adams
Teaching, Men, Cost
Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.276, Cosimo, Inc.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

Henry Adams
Teaching, Ignorance, Study
Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1577, Open Road Media

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