"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure."

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."

"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison ."

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."

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

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."

"There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given.