Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

—Laurence J. Peter

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself… The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

—Laurence J. Peter

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

—Laurence J. Peter

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

—Laurence J. Peter

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

—Laurence J. Peter

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

—L. L. Henderson

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

—John Mason Brown

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

—John Ciardi

That's what college is for—getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.

—Jeph Jacques

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

—James A. Garfield