Quotes on College Education

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

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

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

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen to Steve Earle, Mary J. Blige, and k.d. lang. We devour paperback novels and tell evil mean stories, value stubbornness above patience and a sense of humor more than a college education. We claim our heritage with a full appreciation of how often it has been disdained. And let me promise you, you do not want to make us angry.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

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