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

—Elbert Hubbard, 1911

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.

—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720

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

—Henry David Thoreau, 1850

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

—Aristotle, c. 330 BC

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

—George Peabody, 1852

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

—Ignatius Sancho, 1778

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

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

—Mark Twain, 1893

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

—B.F. Skinner, 1964

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

—Wendell Berry, 1983

Knowledge itself is power.

—Francis Bacon, 1597

Education 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, 1890