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.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and read more

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Those who trust us educate us.

Those who trust us educate us.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

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.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Nature has always had more force than education.