A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Quotes
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258But 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 BCThat obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040Our 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, 1841Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940