No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. – Victor Hugo
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. – William James
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience. – Francis Bacon
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. – Malcolm X
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. – W. E. B. Du Bois
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. – Booker T. Washington
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. – Evan Esar
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. – William Ralph Inge
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. – Charles Stanley
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. – George Orwell
Education is the cheap defense of nations. – Edmund Burke
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. – John W. Gardner
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. – Maria Montessori
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. – James A. Baldwin
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. – Woody Allen
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. – John Locke
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
