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Not all schooling is education nor all education, schooling.
Milton Friedman
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Milton Friedman
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 31
Died: 2006
Died: November 16
Economist
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Milton Fridman
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The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
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If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.
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To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served.
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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
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Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.
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