“The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.”
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
“The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”
“The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.”
“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.”
“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”
“The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.”
“Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
“No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
“It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
“The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.”
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.”
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
“Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
“The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.”
“People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.”
“Our attitude towards ourselves should be ''to be satiable in learning'' and towards others ''to be tireless in teaching.''”
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”
“Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.”
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
“Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
“Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.”
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”