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

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

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least read more

The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use,
In all these he was much and deeply read.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. read more

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.