William G. Spady

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.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.

You must unlearn what you have learned.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Sometimes you get educated by being really bothered by things and you have to educate yourself on how to respond.

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

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.

That’s the way to study history-by noting evolutionary processes.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.