The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's read more

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

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.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological read more

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever read more

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to read more

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.