Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.

Knowledge itself is power.

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

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

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—a debt due from present to future generations.

The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.

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

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

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

To teach is to learn twice over.

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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.