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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
The boy's got problems, the boy's got stress, the boy's got a .38 hidden in his desk.
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.
Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.
Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.