Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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 know and what you don’t.
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Man is what he reads.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Responsibility educates.
