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

—B.F. Skinner

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

—Pete Seeger

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

—Benjamin Franklin

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

—Charlotte Bronte

The secret of education is respecting the pupil.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

—Epictetus

We are now at a 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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

—Joseph Addison

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

—Norman Juster

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

—Carl Jung

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

—Abbe Dimnet

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.

—Daniel J. Boorstin