• “They know enough who know how to learn.” ~ Henry Adams
• “Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.” ~ Henry Adams
• “But time growing old teaches all things.”~ Aeschylus
• “I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.” ~ Stephen Ambrose
• “I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.” ~ Clara Barton
• “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” ~ Jacques Barzun
• “The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Norman Cousins
• “Genius must be born, and never can be taught.” ~ John Dryden
• “How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”
• “One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never.” ~ Alexandre Dumas, pere
• “Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.” ~ Epictetus
• “Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
• “Education is the art of making man ethical.” ~ G. W. F. Hegel
• “If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?” ~ Anne Hutchinson
• “Educate a woman and you educate a family.” ~ Jovita Idar
• “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
• “Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” ~ Arthur Koestler
• “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.” ~ Doris Lessing
• “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ~ C. S. Lewis
• “The best academy, a mother's knee.” ~ James Russell Lowell
• “ ... education through art is a kind of therapy and growth technique, because it permits the deeper layers of the psyche to emerge, and therefore to be encouraged, fostered, trained, and educated.” ~ Abraham Maslow
• “Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.” ~ Novalis
• “To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.” ~ Frances Perkins
• “The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.” ~ Jean Piaget
• “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” ~ Plato
• “To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.” ~ Munshi Premchand
• “If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.” ~ Samuel Richardson
• “The noblest work in education is to make a reasoning man, and we expect to train a young child by making him reason! This beginning at the end; this is making an instrument of a result. If children understood how to reason they would not need to be educated. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau”
• “Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.” ~ John Ruskin
• “A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” ~ George Santayana
• “Freedom can occur only through education.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
• “Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
• “Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.” ~ Sir Walter Scott
• “Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.” ~ Pete Seeger
• “A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
• “I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” ~ John Steinbeck
• “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
• “The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.” ~ Oscar Wilde
• “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~ William Butler Yeats
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