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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation read more
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed read more
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of read more
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.