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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

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.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.