5 Elbert Hubbard Quotes on Education

Elbert Hubbard quotes on education

1. By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing-'Carry a message to Garcia!'

5. Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

7. Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books. [Pg. 160.]

75. College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

107. You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think.