To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks – A.A. Milne.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education – Albert Einstein.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school – Albert Einstein.

Education is the movement from darkness to light – Allan Bloom.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity – Aristotle.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else – Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know – Daniel J. Boorstin.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army – Edward Everett.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding – Ezra Pound.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child – George Santayana.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another – G.K. Chesterton.

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

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself – John Dewey.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent – John Maynard Keynes.

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.

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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education – Mark Twain.

Education should be exercise; it has become massage – Martin H. Fischer.

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs – Martin H. Fischer.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats – Martin H. Fischer.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught – Oscar Wilde.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence – Robert Frost.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense – Robert G. Ingersoll.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows – Sydney J. Harris.

Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance – Will Durant.