Ambrose Bierce

"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."

John W. Gardner

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."

Emma Goldman

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

Ezra Pound

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas."

George Santayana

"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."

Will Rogers

"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure."

Grayson Kirk

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."

Robert M. Hutchins

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."

Carl Rogers

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle

"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."

Ernest Renan

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

Sydney J. Harris

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion."

Muriel Spark

"To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks."

A. A. Milne

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

Henry David Thoreau

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."

Peter F. Drucker

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

Erich Fromm