I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.
Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.
Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.
I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.
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