Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.
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Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.
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A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
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The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education & his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income which he then spends sending his son to college.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area crime, education, housing, race relations the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
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From speech in an Olympic Education event, 4 November 2000.
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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
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Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from themif you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
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Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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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 there, firm as weeds among rocks.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library... That learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
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