[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

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