Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Edith Hamilton:

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought, that is to be educated.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner:

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious.

C.V. Wedgwood:

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

Katherine Paterson:

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections – to exercise our imaginations. It follows, then, that the basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.

Frances Wosmek:

Education strays from reality when it divides its knowledge into separate compartments without due regard to the connection between them.

Agnes Repplier:

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Judith Groch:

The educational system is regarded simultaneously as the nation’s scapegoat and savior.

Judith Groch:

Those who have been required to memorize the world as it is will never create the world as it might be.

Cynthia Ozick:

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

Helen Keller:

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach:

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

Isadora Duncan:

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner:

We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can’t afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

Maria Montessori:

The world of education is like an island where people, cut off from the world, are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

Camille Paglia:

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

Agnes de Mille:

I learned three important things in college – to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any given time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.