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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.
If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.
I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world.
Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.
Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves