We can no longer waste time and money. Every day more than 2000 girls in America age 15-19 give birth - in the wealthiest most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false misleading fictitious mendacious - just dead wrong.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Children have to be educated but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts in speech or on paper some style.
An educated people can be easily governed.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
I can promise you that women working together - linked informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
My father who was from a wealthy family and highly educated a lawyer Yale and Columbia walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother a seventh grade graduate who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well at least I ain't no educated fool.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet but maybe one day.
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.