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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.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn... and change.
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more
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.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance read more
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others