The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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 fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.
The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.
We need university education in Fiji and must seriously think about starting post secondary education in Fiji. In the near future we hope to see a university college in Fiji and ultimately a fully fledged university
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