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The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. . . . The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

They know enough who know how to learn.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.