Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early read more

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

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.

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.

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

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 know and what you don't.