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Derek Bok, president of Harvard University

If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.

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higher education

[higher education] {n.} Schooling after graduation from high school, especially in a college or university. * /Tom plans to get his higher education at the state university./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

Bennett Cerf

(1898-1971) U.S. publisher Gross ignorance--144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. www.english-slang.com

Thomas F. Jones

(1916-1981), president of the University of South Carolina, in Wall Street Journal, 1975. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. www.english-slang.com

the three R's

[the three R's] {n. phr.} (W)riting, reading, and (a)rithmetic, the three basic skills of an elementary education. * /Barry has completed the three R's, but otherwise he has had little […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[have it] {v. phr.} 1. To hear or get news; understand. * /I have it on the best authority that we will be paid for our work […]