Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

Education: A debt due from present to future generations.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to read more

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological read more

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -Malcolm Forbes.