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A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever read more
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con read more
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
[Sp., No con quien naces, sino con quien paces.]
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still read more
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.
If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unknown.
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.