Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both read more

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is read more

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.