The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. The strength of a state is not the gold or the weapons of mass destruction that it has, but the sum total of the education and the character of its people.

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves. - Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. - Alec Bourne

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

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. - Ann Radcliffe

Education is the best provision for old age. - Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F. Skinner

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. – Cicero

The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes. - Denis Diderot

Only the educated are free. - Epictetus

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells

College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller

Education has for its object the formation of character. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. – Herbert Spencer

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. – James A. Garfield

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life. - John Mason Brown

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. - Laurence J. Peter

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes

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

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. - Dr. Thomas Fuller