 In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
- Mortimer Adler (1902-2001) American philosopher, educator and editor
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), 'Optimism,' 1903
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen (1935 - )
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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