Scholar vs Dropout

Math research is more like a marathon. - Terence Tao

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

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

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain

You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard

A college education shows a man how little other people know. - T.C. Hailburton

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. - Sydney J. Harris

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. - B.F. Skinner

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. - Laurence J Peter

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. - Theodore Roosevelt

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

I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. - Yogi Berra

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars. - Erma Bombeck

I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars... the rest I squandered. - George Best

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. - Woody Allen

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. - Jack Nicholson

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards. - Mark Twain

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C S Lewis

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. - Sargent Shriver

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. - Carroll Shelby

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns

A university is an institution that has two thousand seats in the classrooms and eighty thousand in the stadium. - Unknown

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child. - Plato

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost

I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves

Higher education is booming in the United Sates; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - Flannery O'Connor

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle

Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

With the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital. - Stephen Covey