A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

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

The paradox of education is precisely this: that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.