There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
James Dobson

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
Steve Irwin

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
Bill Vaughan

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Maria Montessori

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria Montessori

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young