Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

I find television very educating Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.