That best academy, a mother's knee. James Russell Lowell

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. Marion C. Garretty

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Maynard Hutchins

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. Walt Streightiff

It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not... Albert Einstein

Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. Frank A. Clark

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin

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

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. Saki (H. H. Munro)

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. John W. Gardner

The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. Author Unknown

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. Meryl Streep

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert G. Ingersoll

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. Author Unknown

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. Martin H. Fischer

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Mark Twain

Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. William B. Yeats

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as of you. George Bernard Shaw

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. Robert Maynard Hutchins

The mother's heart is the child's school-room. Henry Ward Beecher

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. Abigail Van Buren

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time. Sydney J. Harris

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Edmund S. Wilson

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Spanish Proverb

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Josh Billings

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Will Durant

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain