Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.