education
“The object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.”
“Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
“Education is a social process; education is growth.”
“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; the doing must demand thinking and learning naturally results.”
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
“Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.”
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
“There is no education like adversity.”
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame.”
“You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay.”
“Those who trust us educate us.”
“We must free ourselves from the prison of public education and politics.”
“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education; to accuse oneself shows education has begun.”
“The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.”
“I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.”
“I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students.”
“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”
“Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.”
“Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”