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

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

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.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.