The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.