In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
Walter Annenberg

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
Allen Klein

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll

It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Learn to think continentally.
Alexander Hamilton

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce

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

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
Brad Henry

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

Responsibility educates.
Wendell Phillips

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
Judy Chicago

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana