Evan Esar

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

My first task is to help students reject 18 years of poor learning that teaches them that knowledge is a product rather than a process.

All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Community colleges are certainly one of America’s best-kept secrets.

For profit higher education is today a booming industry feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

College is part of the American Dream. It shouldn’t be part of a financial nightmare for families.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

Education can’t focus only on developing our wonderful brain. We also need warm-heartedness. This is my view.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

I don’t care what their [Guns N’ Roses] record is. If you need a blood donor and the only person who can give you a transfusion is Hitler, you take the blood.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Education is the best provision for old age.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.