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

—Aristotle

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

—Will Durant

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t.

 —Pete Seeger

Education is not filing a pail, but lighting a fire.

 —William Butler Yeats

If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

We are now at the point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

 —Margaret Mead

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

 —Norman Juster

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

 —e.e. cummings

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

—Dr Seuss

A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.

—W.H. Auden

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

—Oscar Wilde

Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade.

—James Charlton

There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going.

—Beverly Sills

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

—Albert Einstein

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

—G.K. Chesterton

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

—Mark Twain

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly — but then less is learned there. So what the boys get at one end, they lose at the other.

—Samuel Johnson