Only the educated are free.

Only the educated are free.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

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

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. -Sir William Haley.

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on read more

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build alot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities. -Jonathan Kozol.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early read more

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.

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

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

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose read more

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.