My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

If the education of our kids comes from radio television newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from and not from the schools then the powers that be are definitely in charge because they own all those outlets.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

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

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.