“Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.”
“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
“I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”
“The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education”
“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.”
“The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.”
“He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.”
“The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.”
“We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.”
“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.”
“The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.”
“The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”
“The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.”
“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”
“The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.”
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
“No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
“It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
“The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.”
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.”
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
“Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.”
“The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.”
“People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.”