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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

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

—Malcolm X, 1964

The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.

—Isaac Asimov, 1974

The highest result of education is tolerance.

—Helen Keller, 1903

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

—Wendell Berry, 1983

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1964

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

—Henry David Thoreau, 1850

Knowledge itself is power.

—Francis Bacon, 1597

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

—George Peabody, 1852

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

—John Buchan, 1940

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

—John Locke, 1695

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

—Ignatius Sancho, 1778

It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

—Helen MacInnes, 1963