You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
Education is the best provision for old age.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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