Education is the ability to listen anything without losing your cool.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the old part of the experience.
The purpose of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many people as possible at the same level of security, to raise the standard population to suppress dissent and originality .
An education is not how much you have committed to memory, or even what you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you do not like.
Let us dream of teaching an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity.
Real education should educate us about yourself in something much finer in altruism that links us with all humanity.
The purpose of education should be to teach us rather how to think, what to think - rather to improve our minds, so we think for ourselves, than to load the memory of the thoughts of other men.
The only real purpose of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.
