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“Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 232
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“Education doesn’t have aims. It is the aim of other things.”
Abott (2002) “Welcome to the University of Chicago http://www.ditext.com/abbott/abbott_aims.html Aims of Education Address. 2002

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”

“They will by this means receive their education where they receive their birth, and be accustomed from their infancy to inhabit and affect their native soil.”
Educentur hic qui hic nascuntur, statimque ab infantia natale solum amare frequentare consuescant.
Letter 13, 9.
Letters, Book IV

“Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

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p. 60
Why We Fail as Christians (1919)
Context: Thrift and foresight are among the chief teachings of all missionaries to the poor and the present day world has little sympathy for any parent—whether a Harold Skimpole, a Mrs. Jellyby, a Jean Jacques Rousseau, or a Leo Tolstoy—who for any cause whatsoever feels that he should give no thought for the morrow and that his children may live like the fowls of the air.
Abott (2002) “Welcome to the University of Chicago http://www.ditext.com/abbott/abbott_aims.html Aims of Education Address. 2002

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