My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use read more

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that read more

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a
great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at
all.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.