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The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.

Impartially their talents scan, Just education forms the man. - John Gay,

Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

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.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.