What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need read more

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more

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.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life