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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

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

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.