A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.

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

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum.

The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

There is no education like adversity.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.