Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

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

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

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to read more

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth read more

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

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic read more

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school read more

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from read more

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.