Education
Kirksville is home to three institutions of higher learning:
- Truman State University, originally the North Missouri Normal School and Commercial College, and more recently Northeast Missouri State University.
- A.T. Still University, home of the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, the founding osteopathic medical school.
- Moberly Area Community College (MACC) operates a Kirksville campus.
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Every day care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.”
—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)
“The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches—enduring loneliness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Toward education marriage nervous breakdown, operation, teaching
school, and learning to be mad, in a dream—what is this
life?”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)