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Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Those who trust us educate us.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

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

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.