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 world is run by C students.

The world is run by C students.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism read more

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.

Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you:
education, education and education.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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

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

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.