As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. 227
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq. 711
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. 685
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. 671
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. 444
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. 329
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. 263
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. 269
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. 614
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. 287
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. 320
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. 324