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title: "8 Education Merely Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/the-purpose-of-a-christian-education-would-not-be-merely-to-make-men/)

[T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/)

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> [The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-adler/the-object-of-education-is-not-merely-to-enable-our-children-to-gain/)

[Hermann Adler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-adler/)

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> [Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijaya-lakshmi-pandit/education-was-not-merely-a-means-for-earning-a-living-or-an/)

[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijaya-lakshmi-pandit/)

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> [Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/education-is-not-merely-neglected-in-many-of-our-schools-today-but-is/)

[Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/)

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> [“Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israelmore-ayivor/education-is-not-merely-meant-for-you-to-write-and-pass-exams-get-a/)

[Israelmore Ayivor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israelmore-ayivor/)

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> [Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vijaya-lakshmi-pandit/education-is-not-merely-a-means-for-earning-a-living-or-an-instrument/)

[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vijaya-lakshmi-pandit/)

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> [All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-art-all-education-can-be-merely-a-supplement-to-nature/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-glasser/today-much-of-what-we-call-education-is-merely-knowledge-gathering/)

[William Glasser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-glasser/)

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