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Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Always educate yourself.

Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed.

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

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 is the investment with the greatest returns.

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

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

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