You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.

Robert G. Ingersoll
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"To be educated is not to know a lot. It's to have the capacity to learn and to be curious." - Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright was a famous architect and he had a lot of great quotes about education: Educated people are not necessarily more intelligent or creative than uneducated people who have achieved mastery of their craft. The world is full of geniuses and we mustn't forget that most of them were not born with a silver spoon in their mouths. In fact, most of them probably never even finished high school, let alone college. The quality of your knowledge is only as good as the quality of your questions. Physics, chemistry, biology, logic, mathematics, literature, art history – these are not the only subjects that matter in life.

These subjects can teach us a lot about the world around us but they cannot answer all our questions. We need to ask bigger questions – why do we live on this planet? What is the meaning of life? To know what education looks like, look at a baby bird as it tries to fly from one branch to another. In its first few fluttering attempts it may fall hundreds of times before it manages to fly for the first time.

By now you will have learned something from those falls – you might have even learned enough so that now you can give those baby birds a hand and help them gain their wings. You can't gain wisdom if you haven't lived foolishly enough first. This quote is a great reminder that there's no use being wise when you're young because by then it would be too late to become wiser later. Wisdom comes from experience and experience is gained through mistakes - by doing stupid things while young people learn how to avoid them in the future - so take advantage of your youth while you still have it!

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