"Education is the transmission of civilization."

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

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

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre."

"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving."

"Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."