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Some men never recover from education.

—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

—Mark Twain, 1893

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.

—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685

Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.

—Ann Plato, 1841

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.

—Malcolm X, 1964

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

—John Buchan, 1940

That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.

—Ibn Gabirol, 1040

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

—Wendell Berry, 1983

A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.

—Elbert Hubbard, 1911

Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.

—Ignatius Sancho, 1778

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1850

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

—B.F. Skinner, 1964

The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.

—Saadi, 1258