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 My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log 
and a student on the read more 
 My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log 
and a student on the other. 
Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.
 What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to 
teach and instruct our youth?
 [Lat., read more 
 What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to 
teach and instruct our youth?
 [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve 
possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?] 
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art read more
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.