The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.

The direction in which education starts a man, will determine his future life.

'Tis education forms the common mind,Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who insists on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them-not merely industrious, but to love industry-not merely learned, but to love knowledge-not merely pure, but love purity-not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.