| "University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers." »Isaac Asimov |
| "Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word." »Alan Simpson |
| "Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." »Henry Anatole Grunwald |
| "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." »Shirley Temple |
| "And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department." »Andrew Carnegie |
| "I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." »David Mohler |
| "The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education." »Paul E. Gray |
| "The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune." »Unknown |
| "The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education." »Paul Karl Feyerabend |
| "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." »David P Gardner |
| "The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else." »John W. Gardner |
| "Look at the Justice department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for So you can make a bigger salary than other people" »Beah Richards |
| "The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people." »William John Bennett |
| "Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune." »Jim Rohn |
| "As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For Rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY Rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter And I thought I was lazy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack." »James Barrett Scotty Reston |
| "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." »A Bartlett Giamatti |
| "Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Cicero |
| "Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men." »John Calvin |
| "Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence." »Albert Wiggam |
| "We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it." »Robert Hutchins |
| "education is not received. It is achieved." »Unknown |
| "It is only the ignorant who despise education." »Publilius Syrus |
| "education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "The giving of love is an education in itself." »Roosevelt, Eleanor |
| "What is defeat Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better." »Wendell Phillips |
| "I never let schooling interfere with my education." »Mark Twain |
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