Education Quotes

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."

"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."

"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."

"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.