Quotes on University Education

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

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

To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.

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.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

I didn't even complete my University Education

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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