Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
– Lillian Smith
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
– Will Durant
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
– Norman Douglas
Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.
– George Lorimer
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
– Oscar Wilde
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
– Marian Wright Edelman
Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.
– Wu Ting-Fang
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
– Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
– William Butler Yeats
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
– Robert M. Hutchins
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
– Robert Frost
Education is the best provision for old age.
– Aristotle
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
– John Ruskin
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
– Irwin Edman
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
– Karl Kraus
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
– B.F. Skinner
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
– Unknown
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
– Pete Seeger
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
– Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
– Erich Fromm
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
– Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
– Noam Chomsky
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
– Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
