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:
“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)
“Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible adults? On the contrary, by limiting welfare, job training, education and nutritious food, won’t we plant the seeds for another bumper crop of out-of-wedlock moms, deadbeat dads and worse?”
—Richard B. Stolley (20th century)
“It’s fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)