No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine

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