“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
“I never let schooling interfere with my education.”
“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”
“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”
“For good nurture and education, implant good constitutions.”
“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”
“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”
“I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.”
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”
“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
“There is no education like adversity.”
“Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.”