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 first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. John Ruskin
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. James Madison
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. Harry S. Truman
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. Noam Chomsky
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
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. John Ruskin
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Horace Mann
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. Benjamin Disraeli
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
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca
The education of a man is never completed until he dies. Robert E. Lee
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. John Ruskin
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. James A. Baldwin