What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of read more

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

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.

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

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 educated people can be easily governed.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Nature has always had more force than education.