Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.

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

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

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

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

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.

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

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

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.