We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last read more

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.

Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

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.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.