“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
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“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”
“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”
“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.”
“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”
“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.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
“I've never let my school interfere with my education.”
“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
“I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.”
“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”
“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”
“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”
“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”