Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get read more

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

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.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. read more

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

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.