Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

I want to open up a School of Cannibalism. It’ll be a feeder school for top law schools.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.