"You look at this and see gun parts. I look at it and see a craft project." --Head cheerleader to bank robbing gang.

-- movie Sugar and Spice, Unknown , Unknown

...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage --and contribute to--the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

-- Roby James, Commencement, p. 189, Unknown

...under no circumstances shall any learning take place in the State of New Jersey.

-- New Jersey Department of Education, a cease and desist letter to Nova Southeastern University's distance ed efforts, 1974

A boy is better unborn than untaught.

-- Gascoigne, Unknown , Unknown

A child miseducated is a child lost.

-- John Kennedy, Unknown , Unknown

A college education seldom hurts a man if he's willing to learn a little something after he graduates.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A college student is someone who's learned to write home for money in three or four languages.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

-- Fred Allen., Unknown , Unknown

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , born November 4, 1879

A dirty book is rarely dusty.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , 1856-1950

A good education is important. It enables you to pick out the most important things to worry about.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

A good education is like a savings account. The more you put into it, the richer you are.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

-- Charles Schulz, Peanuts, Unknown , Unknown

A good education should leave much to be desired.

-- Alan Gregg, Unknown , born December 4, 1887

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

-- Frederick Douglass, Unknown , Unknown

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than an educated family.

-- Harry S. Truman, Unknown , Unknown

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.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

-- Alexander Pope, Unknown , Unknown

A mind is a terrible thing to ugg.. I forgot.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

-- Anatole France, Unknown , Unknown

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

-- Grace Murray Hopper, Unknown , Unknown

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

-- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-- and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

-- Clark Kerr, Unknown , born 1911

A university floats on paper and rewards the creation of more words on paper.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

A university, if it is any good, is open-ended: the person of the most humble beginnings may rise to the highest office. To be sure, he is most likely to do so if he takes on something of the coloration of the university….He must judge delicately how much of that coloration is natural to him, or he will be thought a parvenu, a climber, merely ambitious rather than incidentally ambitious.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

A zealous school reformer, wearied by jousting with the status quo, heard about a spiritualist who was able to make contact with the dear departed. So one evening, he went to one of her seances. And when his turn came, he asked her to make contact with John Dewey. After struggling for a while, she reached America's greatest philosopher. The reformer was thrilled. "Professor Dewey," he said, "We have labored for 15 years to improve America's schools without success. Please tell me how we can create the kinds of schools our children need and deserve?" Dewey hesitated a moment and replied: "Well, there is the natural way and the miraculous way. Which do you want?" The reformer, his idealism faltering, asked for the natural way. "The natural way," Dewey said, "Would be for God to send down bands of angels to visit every single public school and transform them into places of true learning." "Good heavens," gasped the reformer. "What then is the miraculous way?" "Ah," said Dewey, "The miraculous way would be for the people to do it themselves."

-- Unknown, http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/monographs/glomono.html, Unknown

About eighty-five institutions in the Western world established by 1500 still exist in recognizable forms, with similar functions and with unbroken histories, including the Catholic church, the Parliaments of the Isle of Man, of Iceland, and of Great Britain, several Swiss cantons, and seventy universities. ...These seventy universities...are still in the same locations with some of the same buildings, with professors and students doing much the same things, and with governance carried on in much the same ways.

-- Clark Kerr, Postscript 1982, Change, 14(7), 23-31., 1982

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"-- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

-- Richard Rorty, Chronicle of Higher Education, pg A48, Feb. 9, 1996

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to a conclusion, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

-- Noel Gilroy Annan, Unknown , born December 25, 1916

Academic vows: poverty, bibliography, and jargon

-- Leo Rosten, Unknown , Unknown

Academy, n. (from academe). A modern school where football is taught.

-- Ambrose Bierce, Unknown , Unknown

All generalizations are false.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

All most young people want out of school is themselves.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

All through his education, the only time he wasn't late for school was when he was absent.

-- Gene Perret, Unknown , Unknown

All too often we are stuffing the heads of the young with the products of earlier innovations rather than teaching them to be innovative. We treat their minds as storehouses to be filled rather than as instruments to be used.

-- Robert Finch, Secretary of HEW, Unknown , 1970

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

America's future walks through the doors of our schools each day.

-- Mary Jean Le Tendre, Unknown , Unknown

American college students are like American colleges--each has half-dulled faculties.

-- James Thurber, Unknown , Unknown

An anxious mother was questioning [Princeton University president] Woodrow Wilson closely about what Princeton could do for her son. "Madam," the exasperated Wilson replied, "we guarantee satisfaction or you will get your son back."

-- James C. Humes, Unknown , Unknown

An educated person is one who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn't teach them how to live.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

-- Benjamin Stolberg, Unknown , Unknown

An institution of higher education is what it rewards its people for being.

-- James A. Joseph, former Ambassador, speech at American Democracy Project Meeting "Higher Education and the Public Good", June 15, 2006

And if education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

-- Maria Montessori, Unknown , Unknown

And the test of great teaching is not merely the dissection of truth. It can also be the ability and the willingness to package that truth and deliver it to the people who need it most.

-- James C. Howell, Servants, Misfits, and Martyrs: Saints and Their Stories. Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books. p. 93, 1999

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 33, 1995

Aristotle noted that it was a mark of understanding to know what sorts of things can be proven and made precise, and what sorts, on the other hand, require our tolerance of vagueness and probable conclusions.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

-- Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa, 1928

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

-- Will Durant, Unknown , Unknown

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

-- Leon Botstein, Unknown , born December 14, 1946

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems-- the answer for all the problems of the world--comes to a single word. That word is "education."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

-- Justice Antonin Scalia, Unknown , Unknown

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

-- John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Unknown

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , 1879-1955

Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.

-- Martin Haberman, Unknown , Unknown

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

-- Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory, 1984

Better build schoolrooms for "the boy" Than cells and gibbets for "the man."

-- Eliza Cook, Unknown , 1818-1889

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

-- Peter Ustinov, Unknown , born 1921

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , 1856-1950

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.

-- Charles Peters, Unknown , Unknown

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

-- Saki (H. H. Munro), Unknown , born December 18, 1870

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

-- Henry Brook Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, Unknown

Conference: A place where conversation is substituted for the dreariness of labor and the loneliness of thought.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

-- William Allen White, Unknown , Unknown

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

-- Anna Freud, Unknown , Unknown

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 24l, 1995

Cutbacks, on top of cutbacks already made, were in the air, though no one had yet used the word, which was a technical term and a magical charm to be used only at the time when items in the budget were actually being crossed off. It was a technical term in that you could refer to "shifting resources" and "reallocating funds" right up to the moment you told some guy that his research assistant was being fired and his new lab equipment was not being ordered, and it was a magical charm because it instantly transformed the past into a special, golden epoch, the grand place that all things had been cut back from.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 20-21., 1995

Deans can count but they can't read.

-- Old Saying, Unknown , Unknown

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , born May 29, 1874

Departmental conflicts, which were many, it turned out, were spoken of only by allusion and only in low voices.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 57, 1995

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

-- Moses Ibn Ezra, Unknown , Unknown

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

-- Horace, Carmina. IV. 4. 33., Unknown

Don't let school get in the way of your education.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Don't limit a child to your own learning for they were born in another time.

-- Olde rabbinical saying, Unknown , Unknown

Dr. Lionel Gift was well aware that he could teach this class, and even entertain and please the customers, with no thought whatsoever. What he was saying to them now was like a television program on another channel that he could switch to whenever he wanted, just to see that it was still on, just to see that he, the talking head, was still adhering to the script. Somewhat more often, he checked the audience. Heads down, pencils moving, the occasional nod, all the way back to the last rows. It touched him, it really did, the imparting of knowledge, the initiation of a whole new group of customers into the domain of truth.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 143, 1995

Educated people do not simply believe; they believe what they can explain and cogently defend.

-- S.M. Cahn, Unknown , Unknown

Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space.

-- Gene Perrett, Unknown , Unknown

Education can't make us all leaders-- but it can teach us which leader to follow.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Education cannot be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

-- Wheeler McMillen, Unknown , Unknown

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , born 1874

Education has for its object the formation of character.

-- Herbert Spencer, Unknown , Unknown

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

-- E. C. McKenzie, Unknown , Unknown

Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave.

-- Ropo Oguntimehin, Unknown , Unknown

Education is a method by which one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

-- Laurence J. Peter, Unknown , born September 16, 1919

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

-- Norman Douglas, Unknown , Unknown

Education is a treasure.

-- Petronius, Satyricon, Unknown

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name; you'd have to pay cash.

-- Rita Mae Brown, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. Its proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible.

-- Wendell Berry, "Thoughts In The Presence of Fear " http://www.orionsociety.org/pages/oo/sidebars/America/Berry.html, 2001

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellect, teach them to think straight, if possible.

-- Robert M. Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

Education is not [the] filling [of] a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

-- William.Butler Yeats, Unknown , Unknown

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

-- Malcolm X, Unknown , Unknown

Education is painful and not gained with playing games or being average.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the apprenticeship of life.

-- Robert Willmott, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the art of making man ethical.

-- Georg Hegel, Unknown , 1821

Education is the art of the utilization of knowledge. This an art very difficult to impart…We must beware of what I will call 'inert ideas' that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized or tested or thrown into fresh combinations.

-- Alfred North Whitehead, Aims of Education and Other Essays, NY: MacMillan, 1924

Education is the best provision for old age.

-- Aristotle, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

-- G. K. Chesterton, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token to save it from that ruin, which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. An education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their choice of undertaking something new, something unforseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.

-- Hannah Arendt, Unknown , 1906-1975

Education is the primary tool of emancipation and liberation for African-Americans in our fight for true equality in this country.

-- Earl G. Graves, Unknown , Unknown

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

-- Irwin Edman, Unknown , 1896-1954

Education is understanding relationships.

-- George Washington Carver, Unknown , Unknown

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

-- Marquis of Halifax, Unknown , Unknown

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

-- Pete Seeger, Unknown , born 1919

Education is wonderful--it helps you worry about things all over the world.

-- Joey Adams, Unknown , Unknown

Education is…hanging around until you've caught on.

-- Robert Frost, Unknown , Unknown

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

-- John Stuart Mill, Unknown , Unknown

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

-- Lord Brougham, Unknown , Unknown

Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.

-- Sybil Marshall, Unknown , Unknown

Education not as sudden as a massacre, but more deadly in the long run.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

-- Barbara Jordan, 1991, Unknown

Education should be a talent development effort rather than a competition.

-- Lee Chronbach as quoted by Mike Theall, Unknown , Unknown

Education should be as gradual as the moonrise, perceptible not in progress but in result.

-- George John Whyte-Melville, Riding Recollections, Unknown

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

-- James Mason Wood, Unknown , Unknown

Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there is no known cure for a big head.

-- J. Graham, Unknown , Unknown

Education worthy of the name is essentially education of character.

-- Martin Buber, Unknown , 1939

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

-- Malcolm S. Forbes, Unknown , Unknown

Education, to be successful, must not only inform but inspire.

-- T. Sharper Knowlson, Unknown , Unknown

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

-- G.M. Trevelyan, Unknown , Unknown

Education: A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Unknown , Unknown

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

Education: That which reveals to the wise, conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Education: The path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

-- W.E.B. DuBois, Unknown , Unknown

Elites feel able to rise above their own rules, since they create them: no one can attend faculty meetings for long without discovering that rules are normative, not binding.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.

-- Neil Postman, The End of Education, Unknown

Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

-- Gloria Steinem, Unknown , 1934

Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

-- John Mendoza, Unknown , Unknown

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

-- Friedrich Schlegel, Unknown , 1798

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

-- Gertrude Stein, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology.

-- Clive James, Unknown , Unknown

Everyone[Everybody] is ignorant only on different subjects.

-- Will Rogers, Unknown , Unknown

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

-- Flannery O'Connor, Unknown , Unknown

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

-- Heinrich Heine, Unknown , born December 13, 1797

Faculty are the folks at the front of the room. Students are the folks in front of the folks at the front of the room. Administrative Staff are the folks behind the folks in front of the folks at the front of the room.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

First I was dying to finish high school and start college. And then I was dying to finish college and start working. And then I was dying to marry and have children. And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could return to work. And then I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying…And suddenly realize I forgot to live.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings.

-- George Will, Unknown , Unknown

For colored people to acquire learning in this country makes tyrants quake and tremble on their sandy foundation.

-- David Walker, Unknown , Unknown

For every complex question there is a simple answer -- and it's wrong.

-- H.L. Mencken, Unknown , Unknown

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.

-- Richard Clapton, Unknown , Unknown

For every student with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

-- Milton Berle, Unknown , Unknown

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

-- Ingrid Bengis, Unknown , Unknown

For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

-- Robert Maynard Hutchins, Unknown , Unknown

From the day I was born, I began to learn my lessons. I learned it is possible to be a Christian and a white southerner simultaneously; to be a gentlewoman and an arrogant callous creature in the same moment; to pray at night and ride a Jim Crow car the next morning and to feel comfortable doing both. I learned to believe in freedom, to glow when the word democracy was used, and to practice slavery from morning to night.

-- Lillian Smith, Unknown , 1897-1966

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there; make it happen.

-- Lee Iacocca, Unknown , Unknown

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

-- William Saroyan, Unknown , Unknown

Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding.

-- Peter Block, Unknown , Unknown

Half the misery in the world is caused by ignorance. The other half is caused by knowledge.

-- Bonar Thompson, Unknown , born 1888

Harvard University is conceded to be one of the nation's greatest storehouses of knowledge, and its onetime president, the late Charles W. Eliot, had a ready explanation. "We're adding more knowledge every semester," he declared. "The freshman [sic] bring us so much of it--and the seniors take away so little!"

-- Bennett Cerf, Unknown , Unknown

He sought advice readily, always a good quality in an administrator, and did his own Xeroxing.

-- Jane Smiley, Moo. New York: Fawcett Columbine. P. 62, 1995

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.

-- Francis Bacon, Unknown , Unknown

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

-- Hypatia, in Elbert Hubbard, (1908) Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, c. 370-415

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart ass.

-- Howard Kandel, Unknown , Unknown

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , born November 30, 1874

Higher education….one student at a time!

-- Bowling Green Community College, Bowling Green, KY, Unknown , Unknown

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!

-- William Cowper, Unknown , born November 26, 1731

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

-- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See, Unknown

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

-- H.G. Wells, Unknown , 1920

I always intended to do things, but life always got in the way of my intentions, and I was like a passenger riding in a getaway car, randomly throwing assignments out the window like a drive-by criminal.

-- Jessica McMeans, undergraduate describing her term, April 2005

I always intended to do things, but life always got in the way of my intentions, and I was like a passengr riding in a getaway car, randomly throwing assignments out the window like a drive-by criminal.

-- Jessica McMeans, undergraduate, personal review of her coursework, April, 2005

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our education system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.

-- Thomas Edison, Unknown , 1922

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

-- John Cage, Unknown , Unknown

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it.

-- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, Unknown

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

-- John Dewey, Unknown , Unknown

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

-- Barbara Jordan, Unknown , Unknown

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

-- Whitfield Diffie., Unknown , Unknown

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

-- Harold Macmillan, Unknown , Unknown

I know a lot of people think I’m dumb. Well, at least I ain’t no educated fool.

-- Leon Spinks, LA Times, 19 78, June 28

I look upon schools as having a function similar to that of hospitals. And I am no more receptive to people telling me, you know, that schools can't do anything because children come there with deficiencies than I can accept as being anything other than nonsense anyone who would say to you that hospitals can't do anything because people who go there are sick.

-- Kenneth Clark, psychologist whose research helped win Brown v Board of Education, Unknown , Unknown

I mistrust all systemisers and I avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1895

I must study politics and war that my sons will have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

-- John Adams, Unknown , Unknown

I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

-- Abigail Adams, Unknown , 1744-1818

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

-- Wilson Mizner, Unknown , 1876-1933

I should…prefer the broad daylight of a respectable school to the solitude and obscurity of a private education. For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

-- Quintilian, Unknown , ca 35 AD-ca 100

I still remember my college days--all four of them.

-- Henny Youngman, Unknown , Unknown

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Unknown , 1917-1963

I think the world is run by C students.

-- Al McGuire, Unknown , Unknown

I think what surprised me most about the 19th century writers was their attitude toward women. They assumed with a fine complacency that men were entitled to as much education as they could get but that even a little of it was apt to be dangerous for a woman.

-- Edward Weeks, Unknown , 1957

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have is that I didn't study my Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

-- Dan Quayle, Unknown , Unknown

I wonder whether if I had had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.

-- Alice James, The Diary of Alice James, Unknown

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, “This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!”

-- Lewis Mumford, To National Book Awards Committee, 'My Works and Days' Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979

I'm not afraid of getting my nose and ears cut off, I want to keep studying.

-- Nooria, 12 year old Afghan girl, in response to violence & threats from the Taliban, Newsweek, p. 34, June 26, 2006

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

-- John Galsworthy, Unknown , born August 14, 1867

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

-- L. Ron Hubbard, Unknown , Unknown

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

-- J. Harlen Bretz., Unknown , Unknown

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

-- Donald D. Quinn, Unknown , Unknown

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

If by being overstudious we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

-- Montaigne, Essays, Unknown

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.

-- Howard Gardner, "The Academic Community Must Not Shun the Debate Over How to Set National Educational Goals" in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 Nov. 1989

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

-- William Booth, Unknown , born 1829

If nobody dropped out at the eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

If the cost of education continues to rise, education will become as expensive as ignorance.

-- Phi Delta Kappan, Unknown , Unknown

If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

-- Sarah M. Grimke, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, 1838

If there is anything education does not lack today, it is critics.

-- Nathan M. Pusey, Unknown , Unknown

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

-- FMEA, Stamatis, Unknown , Unknown

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.

-- Mo Udall, Unknown , Unknown

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

-- Toni Morrison, Unknown , Unknown

If you complain of neglect of education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it?…If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women.

-- Abigail Adams, letter in Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife, Abigail Adams, During the Revolution (1875), August 14, 1776

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway…The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway….give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

-- Mother Teresa, Meditations from a Simple Path, Unknown

If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

-- Ruby Manikan, Unknown , Unknown

If you feel that you have both feet planted on the ground then the university has failed you.

-- Robert F. Goheen, Unknown , born August 15, 1919

If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.

-- Kuan Chung, Unknown , Unknown

If you think education is expensive--try ignorance.

-- Derek Bok, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to become the greatest in your field, no matter what it may be, equip yourself to render greater service than anyone else.

-- Clinton Davidson, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

-- Cynthia Copeland Lewis, Really important stuff my kids have taught me, 1994

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.

-- Christopher Andreae, Unknown , born December 24, 1919

Ignorance never settles a question.

-- Fortune Cookie, Unknown , Unknown

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

-- Oscar Wilde, Unknown , Unknown

Imagination is more powerful even than knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein, Unknown , Unknown

Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold.

-- Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilbur, Unknown , Unknown

In any academic community there are scholars of whom it is said that they have twenty fresh ideas a day, ten of them quite mad, five naïve or stupid, three without point, and two exciting and potentially of great value. Most bureaucracies, seeking to homogenize their members, would not tolerate so low-level a return; any sound university will bear with eighteen expressions of madness, stupidity, and nonproductivity in exchange for two of great value.

-- Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown, Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Unknown

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

-- Shunru Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill Pub., April 1, 1973

In the first place God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made school boards.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

In the Industrial Age, we went to school. In the Communication Age, schools will come to us.

-- from the masthead of The Online Chronicle of Distance Education Communication, Unknown , Unknown

In the opening years of the new century, our colleges and universities have reached a watershed between the failing end of a once golden era and an economic, structural, and technological transformation lying just over the campus horizon. As a consequence, they must rethink what they do, for whom they do it, and how they can do it more effectively, more efficiently, and with greater concern for the welfare of what will be a larger and demographically different body of undergraduates.

-- Mel Elfin, "Longtime Observer Gives Low Grade to Trends in U.S. Higher Education" in The Key Reporter, Vol 68, No. 2, p. 11, Winter 2003

Indeed, one of the ultimate advantages of education is simply coming to an end of it.

-- B.F. Skinner, Unknown , Unknown

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

-- Ronald Reagan, Unknown , Unknown

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values.

-- Gerald Brenan, Unknown , Unknown

Isn't education a process in which we are all confronted with positions that differ from our own and that require us to re-think what we think we know?

-- John Wise, Professional and Organizational Development listserv, Re: "Faith-Based Students" and...our practices, 13 Jan 2006

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchance of Venice, act 1, sc. 2, 1. [59], 1596-8

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Unknown , Unknown

It is easier to move a cemetery than to effect a change in curriculum.

-- Woodrow Wilson, Unknown , Unknown

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

-- Jacob Bronowski, Unknown , Unknown

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape -- not from our own time, for we are bound by that -- but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our own time.

-- T. S. Eliot, Unknown , 1888-1965

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

-- Caron deBeaumarchais, Unknown , Unknown

It is not the IQ but the I Will that is most important in education.

-- Anonymous, Unknown , Unknown

It is not who you