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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. read more
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
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.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
