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

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
-- Max Beerhohm

Any place that anyone young can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
-- Al Capp

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
-- John Updike

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
-- John Updike

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
-- Robert Maynard Hutchins

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think.
- - James Beattie

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly.
- - Thomas H. Huxley

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
- - Thomas H. Huxley

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Education is understanding relationships.  
-- George Washington Carver

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves
throughout their lives. 
-- Robert Maynard Hutchins

Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- alcolm Forbes

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality
of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.
  -- Grayson Kirk

Education is the art of making man ethical. 
-- George Hegel

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. 
~Aristotle