The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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.
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
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.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.