The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Quotes
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911