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Higher education and business are basically interdependent. One needs money to produce educated people, and the other needs educated people to produce money.

The sole function of education was to open the way of thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

I never was much for saving money, as money. I devoted every cent, regardless of future needs, to scientific books and materials for experiments.

The average Ph. D. Thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends.

If you want to do something to help change your world, you can do that -- one child at a time.

Few expenditures we can make yield a greater return than those for education. A well-educated person produces more and consumes more, makes wiser decisions at the pools, mounts a stronger defense against aggression, and is better able to perform the grave responsibilities of American citizenship.

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

I don't teach the student who isn't eager to learn, nor do I help anyone who isn't eager to express himself. If I present one corner of a subject and the student cannot use it to learn the other three, I won't repeat my lesson.

He who reviews old knowledge and continues to learn new knowledge is fit to teach others.

Education must have two foundations -- morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.