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Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.
Education has always been very important to me. It means you don't have to depend on anyone else.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.
We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.
A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]
The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.
We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.
The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.
Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.
The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.
That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.