Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax. Joseph Joubert
The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. Norman Douglas
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. Robert Frost
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. Aldous Huxley
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero
Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. Jacques Barzun
Education has for its object the formation of character. Herbert Spencer
All of us have two educations – one which we receive from others; another, and the most valuable, which we give ourselves. John Randolph
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. John Ruskin
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life. Brigham Young
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. Mandell Creighton
The best of my education has come from the public library… my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents for an overdue book. You don’t need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. Lesley Conger
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M Hutchins
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes…different points of view. Robert M Hutchins
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. Nelson Mandela
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. Joseph Stalin
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. Josephine Tey
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. Thomas Arnold
What we must look for here is, first, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability. Thomas Arnold
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education. Tallulah Bankhead
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France
Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. John Maynard Keynes
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking. Philip K. Dick
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfilment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. Noam Chomsky
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Omar Bradley
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. Russell Baker
Education is the mother of leadership. Wendell L. Willkie
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. Al Capp
In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Earl Warren
In my opinion, much of the so-called science of ‘education’ was invented as a necessary mechanism for enabling semi-educated people to act as tolerable teachers. Sloan Wilson