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.(Bill Beattie)
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks.(Charlotte Bronte)
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.(Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.(Noam Chomsky)
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.(Aleister Crowley)
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.(Tryon Edwards)
Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained.(James Abram Garfield)
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce.(Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve)
