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

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

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

"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men."

"Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions."

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

"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."