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

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

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

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

Knowledge itself is power.

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

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

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

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

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