The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students.
A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his entire life.
All very old men have splendid educations; all men who apparently know nothing else have thorough classical educations; nobody has an average education.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
To teach is to learn twice.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
A man is made by the books he reads.
Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Me got no education, me got inspiration. If I was educated I'd be a damn fool.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Those who trust us educate us.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
