A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

—Herman Melville, 1851

The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.

—Isaac Asimov, 1974

One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.

—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.

—Malcolm X, 1964

A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.

—Elbert Hubbard, 1911

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

—John Locke, 1695

If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1981

The highest result of education is tolerance.

—Helen Keller, 1903

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

—George Peabody, 1852

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1850

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

—Henry Adams, 1907

Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.

—Che Guevara, 1965

That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.

—Ibn Gabirol, 1040

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

—Aristotle, c. 330 BC

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

—Genesis, c. 900 BC

It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

—Helen MacInnes, 1963

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1964

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

—Joseph Addison, 1711

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.

—Mao Zedong, 1936

To teach is to learn twice over.

—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805

Some men never recover from education.

—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954

Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.

—Ann Plato, 1841

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.

—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685

Knowledge itself is power.

—Francis Bacon, 1597

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

—Mark Twain, 1893

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

—John Buchan, 1940

The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.

—Saadi, 1258

Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.

—Ignatius Sancho, 1778

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

—Wendell Berry, 1983

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, 1890