Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.

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.

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in read more

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can read more

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.