I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up read more

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation read more

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

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 know and what you don't.

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what read more

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a read more

But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The highest result of education is tolerance.