The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

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

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.

If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.

But 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.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

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

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

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