Famous Quotes About education

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Every educated person is a future enemy.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.