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No, it is the narrowness of what constitutes elite i.e. the credential that is oxymoronic to the term education.
Real diversity on the Supreme Court. Ann Althouse 2009
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Before proceeding farther it may be well to define our understanding of the term education.
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This increase in attendance is due to a deeper interest and a more comprehensive meaning of the term education.
Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the Scholastic Years 1898-'99 to 1899-1900 Charles Harden 1896
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His youth showed again how much more inborn tendency has to do with one's life than any external forces -- such as guardianship, means, and what we call education.
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various
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Refinement of manners and acuteness of intellect have, in the East, nothing in common with what we call education.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909
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This can be gotten rid of only by training; and primarily such training must take the form of that sort of social leadership which we call education.
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time Various 1905
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The refinement of manners and the acuteness of the intellect have, in the East, nothing in common with what we call education.
The Life of Jesus Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1863
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The refinement of manners and the acuteness of the intellect have, in the East, nothing in common with what we call education.
The Life of Jesus Ernest Renan 1857
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Moreover, although there is no heritage of accumulated knowledge amongst the lower animals, as there is amongst us, they are in some degree susceptible of those modifications of natural character, and capable of those accomplishments, which we call education.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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But taking off a bra and putting the breasts in front of a camera - that's what I call education.
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