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“Ascertain what the candidate can do, rather that what he has done.”

Autobiography, p. 101.
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“When I use the term education, I do not use it as an equivalent of schooling. The two terms 'education' and 'schooling' are not synonymous…Schooling at its best in the United States frequently has a tendency to make the acquisition of knowledge its chief objective. Education has to do with the enrichment of life.”

Newton, p. 191. Undelivered Speech for the Senate. Circa 1928.
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