Quotes about Education

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

The more you learn, the hungrier you are to learn more. You can't get enough. You begin to crave knowledge and wisdom as much as you used to crave sitting on a couch vegging out to reality shows.

But ignorance is widespread because most preachers never mention it.

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.

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.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

To educate a person without teaching ethics is to create a menace to society.