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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

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

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

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.

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