Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes

BUTLER, Nicholas Murray Quotes

(1862-1947), American educator

Education

There are five tests of the evidence of education—correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue; refined and gentle manners, the result of fixed habits of thought and action; sound standards of appreciation of beauty and of worth, and a character based on those standards; power and habit of reflection; efficiency or the power to do.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.