An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

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 know and what you don't.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which read more

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both read more

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. read more

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

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

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed
of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their
fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God
who made us has endowed us.

Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."

Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it read more

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.