The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

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.

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.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

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.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.