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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

What’s the use of a high school education if you can’t recall it when needed later on?

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

That’s just how I see things on a base level: there’s so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It’s part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don’t know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.