It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t
To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself
Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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.
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.