Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Education
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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
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"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
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