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Education Without Nerve: Canada’s Academic Masquerade

Albert Einstein:

“Education remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

Mark Twain:

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

Socrates:

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”

William Butler Yeats:

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

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