There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

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.

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 do know and what you don't.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

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.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do read more

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.