The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
Wit is educated insolence.
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Education [...] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
Building a conscience is what discipline is all about.
An illiterate king is a crowned ass.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
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.
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
We go to school to learn to communicate, but all the teachers say to us is "shut up!"
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
Freedom can occur only through education.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn.
Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
