The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A.A. Milne
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
Martin H. Fischer
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
Martin H. Fischer
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G.K. Chesterton
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Abbé Dimnet
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Peter Drucker
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
Martin H. Fischer
With just enough learning to misquote.
George Gordon
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
Brander Matthews
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
>Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.
Martin H. Fischer
It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
You can get all A’s and still flunk life.
Walker Percy
All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Ariel and Will Durant