Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Education is civil defence against media fallout.
The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.
It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.
Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.
Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
To have a sense of education and ethics is important.
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.