"An educated person, I think, is one..." - Quote by Henry Ford
An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.
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“The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.”
“To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”
“Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose.”
More on Education
“An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy”
“Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.”
“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”
More on Knowledge
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
“One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.”
“He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical.”