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In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

I played to win. When I was a child, my brothers and I played cowboys and Indians in the park, and I was always an Indian who got captured. That was a learning experience; they were showing me that as a woman I was going to be captured. But in a metaphorical sense, I think I did eventually become a cowboy.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

I recognize the lion by his paw.

I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great men from our universities. The marking system is a traumatic experience from which most students emerge with a deep determination never to get into a situation where they can be marked again. They just won't ever again take a chance.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.