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'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.

When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.

Education: The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

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