The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the read more

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

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.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you read more

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am read more

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
read more

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle
replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,
Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."