My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the read more

My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the other.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's read more

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

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 do know and what you don't.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in read more

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

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.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' ends.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling

My education was interrupted only by my schooling

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to read more

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.