Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
An educated people can be easily governed.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Learn to think continentally.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
I need to complete my homework on time.
We cannot learn men from books.
