The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.