Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

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

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.