Be
careful to leave your sons well instructed rather
than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better
than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus
Don't
ever dare to take your college as a matter of course--because,
like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never
know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
- Alice Drue Miller
The future
belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The fruit
of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity
and desire to learn; not knowledge, but power.
- Charles W. Eliot
Every
successive generation becomes a living memorial
of our public schools, and a living example of their
excellence.
- Joseph Story
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Twenty
years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain |
Do not
ask if a man has been through college; ask if a
college has been through him; if he is a walking
university.
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The secret
of success in life is for a man to be ready for
his opportunity when it comes.
- Earl of Beaconsfield
The
things taught in schools and colleges are not an education,
but the means of education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I
have learned this at least by my experiment; that
if one advances confidently in the direction of his
dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had
imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
When
you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to
happen sometimes, remember the millions of people
in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember
the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions
who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently
find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and
a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man.
Is it not significant that the first bid for self
realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to
assert their right to education?
- Jehan Sadat
We
know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- Shakespeare
To
accomplish great things, we must dream as well as
act.
- Anatole France
The
supreme end of education is expert discernment in
all things -- the power to tell the good from the
bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer
the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Samuel Johnson
Education
make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive,
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Lord Brougham
The
function of the university is not simply to teach
bread winning, or to furnish teachers for the public
schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is,
above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment
between life and the growing knowledge of life, an
adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
- W. E B. Du Bois
The
man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow
is uneducated the day after.
- Newton D. Baker
Knowledge
will forever govern ignorance: and a people who mean
to be their own governors, must arm themselves with
the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison
The
great value of formal education is that it is designed
to foreshorten human experience. It endeavors with
ease and economy to bring each succeeding generation
up to date with respect to the past, and to make it
at home in the world. In this sense, it prepares each
generation for life.
- Virgil M. Hancher
Education
should bring to light the ideal of the individual.
- J. Paul F. Richter
The
most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom
to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue --
questions and answers that pursue every problem on
the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.
- William O. Douglas
'Tis
education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
- Alexander Pope
Let
us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever
may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.
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Education
is the process by which the individual relates himself
to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing
world, share's the race's mind and enfranchises his
own soul.
- John H. Finley
Education
is the best provision for old age.
- Aristotle
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.
- A. Whitney Griswold
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