Ex.2.20. Discuss the following quotations about Education with your groupmates. Say which of them – if any - reflects your point of view.

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1) Good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school (Saki, Reginald in Russia)

2) Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the Polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman)

3) Of Cambridge University: This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other apellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description (Lord Byron, letter 23 November 1805)

4) Gentlemen: I have not have your advantages. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life (Horatio Bottomley, speech at the Oxford Union, 2 December 1920)

5) In examinations those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell (Walter Raleigh, Laughter from a Cloud)

6) For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty who don't want to learn – much (W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman: And Now All This: Introduction)

7) Someone once said, Rumbold, that education is what is left when you have forgotten all you have ever learned. You appear to be trying to circumvent the process by learning as little as possible (Alan Bennett, Forty Years On)

8) If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to substract – teach him to deduct (Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies)

9) At the University, I saw many men I knew doing courses only to gratify their parents or, as the phrase went, ‘to get something solid behind them' (Barry Humphries, More Please)

10) Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology, women's studies – to prove that nothing is anybody's fault (P.J. O'Rourke, Give War a Chance)

11) As one who has spent his entire life, man, boy and raving old dotard, in and out of educational establishments I am the last person to offer any useful advice about them. Better leave that to politicians with no education, sense or commitment. They at least can bring an empty mind to the problem (Stephen Fry, Paperweight)