The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweetAristophanes
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslaveLord Henry Broughamspeech to the House of Commons
To live for a time close to great minds is the best educationJohn BuchanMemory Hold the Door
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to anotherG.K. Chesterton
Education made us what we areC.A. HelvétusDiscours XXX
'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclinedAlexander PopeEpistles to Several Persons
Education is something that tempers the young and consoles the old, gives wealth to the poor and adorns the richDiogenes (The Cynic)
Even while they teach, men learnSenecaLetters
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgottenB.F. SkinnerEducation in 1984
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soulMuriel SparkThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escapeWilliam HazlittThe Ignorance of the Learned
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole familyCharles D. McIver
Men must be born free; they cannot be born wise, and it is the duty of any university to make free men wiseAdlai Stevenson
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praiseRoger AschamThe Schoolmaster
Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understandingAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary
Better build schoolrooms for `the boy' than cells and gibbets for `the man'Eliza CookA Song for the Ragged Schools
Man is the only creature which must be educatedImmanuel Kant
Ask me my three main priorities for government and I tell you: education, education, educationTony Blair
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the worldNelson Mandela