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This quotation examines the core nature of Education as articulated by Stephen Ambrose. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Education provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Stephen Ambrose

Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and author whose work focused particularly on World War II, the American West, and the lives of U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He taught history from 1960 until his retirement in 1995 and was a member of the University of New Orleans faculty from 1971, becoming Boyd Professor of History in 1989. He also founded the university's Eisenhower Center and co-founded the National D-Day Museum, later designated the National World War II Museum.

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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."

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"Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education."

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