Russell Baker

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."

Anatole France

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

Edward Everett

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Oscar Wilde

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

Aristotle

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

Daniel J. Boorstin

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

William Butler Yeats

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

Robert Frost

"Education is the transmission of civilization."

Will Durant

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

B. F. Skinner

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

G. M. Trevelyan

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."

Gail Godwin

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Victor Hugo

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."

Michel de Montaigne

"I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education."

Tallulah Bankhead

"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."

Al McGuire

"If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else."

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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

Heinrich Heine

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

Mark Twain

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Aristotle