I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a read more

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself

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.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which read more

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
read more

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content--
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.