I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.
If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
I will get my education – if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Read in order to live.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Even when life challenges us, it’s a gift beyond all measure.
Education is neither eastern nor western.
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
