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:
“Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influence which flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I prefer to finish my education at a different school.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”
—Jean Piaget (1896–1980)