An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

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 do know and what you don't.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a read more

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is read more

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic read more

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.