Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas Sowell

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
Aldo Leopold

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Adolf Hitler

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
Loretta Young

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Thomas Huxley

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
Charles Stanley

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Charles R. Swindoll

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
William Congreve