The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 175Robert E. Lee
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Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.
William A. Henry III
Gaetan had always had a terrible finality about him. Was this his great sin that he was already completed? I will intercede for him tonight in my own not entirely mechanical way. To be completed is to be finished in so many ways! May that twinkling man Gaetan be undone a little and saved.
R. A. Lafferty
Some of the work confronting us will not be completed during my presidency. Some, like the elimination of nuclear weapons, may not be completed in my lifetime. But I know these challenges can be met so long as it's recognized that they will not be met by one person or one nation alone. This award is not simply about the efforts of my administration it's about the courageous efforts of people around the world.
Barack Obama
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise,all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of
Robert Charles Winthrop
It is not my intention to denounce modern education. If it is bad, it may be said that all education is bad which is not self-education, and quite a lot of self-education is going on today some of it in our schools, under the very noses of the teachers!
Robertson Davies
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