Charles Babbage Quotes

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

We want a corps of educated instructors – we want gratuitous instruction in our academies and colleges. The di minorum of learning ought to be elevated in the scale of public estimation and intellectual endowment.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

Having an education is invaluable.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

The value of a good education has never left me.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

We must bring it to pass ... if we have the peace that all the youth now in England, born of free men who have the means that they can apply to it, may be devoted to learning ... until such time as they can read well what is written in England.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.