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

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

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

                                                                                                  —Carl Jung

                                                                                                                        

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.            

                                                                                         —G.M. Trevelyan

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.                                        

                                                                                               —Victor Hugo

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

—Wilson Mizner

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

Sadly, children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.                                                                                                               

                                                                                                —Bell Hooks

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

                                                                                        —Norman Juster

Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.                                                                          

                                                                                     —Mary Kay Utecht