Essential Education Quotes

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

All so-called "higher" education, with the exception of medicine and the technical sciences leading to production, are Luxuries, not Necessaries.

Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

Education is a basic necessity.

A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.