Robert Frost

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

- Robert Frost, poet

Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain, author

Wendell Phillips

"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better."

- Wendell Phillips, abolitionist and activist

Anatole France

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Albert Einstein

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

- Albert Einstein, physicist

Clarence Darrow

"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."

- Clarence Darrow, lawyer

B. F. Skinner

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

- B. F. Skinner, psychologist

Will Durant

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

- Will Durant, author, historian and philosopher

George Santayana

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

- George Santayana, philosopher, poet, author

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."

- Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, professor, author, statesman

George Bernard Shaw

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and critic

Epictetus

"Only the educated are free."

- Epictetus, philosopher

Cicero

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

- Cicero, ancient Roman orator, politician and author

James Joyce

“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”

- James Joyce, author