Louis L'Amour - Education Quotes

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No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

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What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

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No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

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Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

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The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

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Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

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For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

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