Quotes on Academic Education

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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 learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.