| "Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word." »Alan Simpson |
| "If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well." »Black Hawk |
| "Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." »Henry Anatole Grunwald |
| "The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education." »Paul Karl Feyerabend |
| "The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education." »Paul E. Gray |
| "Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune." »Unknown |
| "The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least." »David P Gardner |
| "To be an adult is to be alone." »Jean Rostand |
| "The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else." »John W. Gardner |
| "the world is not enough for me as an adult but i wonder what i was like in the womb." »Abdirisak Ishak |
| "What Washington needs is adult supervision." »Barack Obama |
| "A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong." »Thomas Szasz |
| "Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for So you can make a bigger salary than other people" »Beah Richards |
| "Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." »Margaret Atwood |
| "Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult." »Sir Laurence Olivier |
| "The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people." »William John Bennett |
| "He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain." »John Moore |
| "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." »H. G. Wells |
| "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." »Sigmund Freud |
| "The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible." »Jean Kerr |
| "Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune." »Jim Rohn |
| "A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." »John Updike |
| "There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world." »Jean Baudrillard |
| "If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in." »Rachel Carson |
| "Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." »A Bartlett Giamatti |
| "By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun." »Katherine Mansfield |
| "I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound." »Helen Keller |
| "Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence." »Norman Podhoretz |
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