I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Bo Jackson

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Sydney J. Harris

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

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John W. Gardner

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
John W. Gardner

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
Al Gore

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer

Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
David Suzuki

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
Marian Wright Edelman

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
John Naisbitt

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James Baldwin

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