Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
