SOME QUOTATIONS ABOUT EDUCATION 1. You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn.

You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

Adam Cooper and Bill Collage,

2. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne

3. 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 do know and what you don't.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

4. A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.
Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

5. Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

6. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

7. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964

8. The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell (1918 - )

9. Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
Clive James

10. The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.
Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)

11. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Diogenes Laertius

12. Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732

13. I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.
Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009

14. Only the educated are free.

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses

15. America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

16. Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)

17. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Gail Godwin

18. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

19. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)

20. College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

21. Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)

22. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)

23. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880

24. Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07

25. That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.
Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07

26. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)

27. She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969)

28. Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. Henderson

29. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

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

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

SOME QUOTATIONS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP 1. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD), A Hundred Sayings 2. Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics 3. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics 4. A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today" 5. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) 6. Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C. 7. The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Amicitia 8. It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932 9. Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07 10. Have no friends not equal to yourself. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects 11. Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. Czech Proverb 12. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie 13. My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. Dame Edna Everage (1934 - ) 14. Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them. David Nicholls, One Day, 2010 15. You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust. David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008