A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.