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

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer — into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

—Nancy Astor

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

—Abraham Lincoln

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.      —John Ciardi

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

—Joseph Addison

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

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former.

—Horace Mann

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

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

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

—William Butler Yeats

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.  —BF Skinner

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

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.                   —Anatole France

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.  —Malcolm S. Forbes