The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Education begins the gentleman but reading good company and reflection must finish him.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know about something you do not want to know.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

I add this that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education the opportunities that I've had so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

If you know how to read you have a complete education about life then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers and we should keep it that way.

At the bottom of education at the bottom of politics even at the bottom of religion there must be for our race economic independence.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls which molds and develops men.

Without education you are not going anywhere in this world.

Travel in the younger sort is a part of education in the elder a part of experience.

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Common sense is in spite of not as the result of education.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.