Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Industrialize or perish.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The knowledge of all things is possible
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
