No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's read more

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war read more

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the read more

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken
within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation
of character.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do read more

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need read more

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from
books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is
not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. read more

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.