It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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.

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

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

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 is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on read more

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

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.