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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Tryon Edwards, ( 1809-1894), US theologian; He edited with a memoir most of the published writings of his grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, the Younger (1745-1801).

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