Nowadays, the illiterates can read and write.

Next week I have to take my college aptitude test. In my high school they didn't even teach aptitude.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

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

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

A child promoted to a new class said to a dearly beloved teacher: "I wish you knew enough to teach me next year."

Education covers a lot of ground, but it doesn't cultivate it.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

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

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.