The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
If the education of our kids comes from radio television newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from and not from the schools then the powers that be are definitely in charge because they own all those outlets.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Education n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.