An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker

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 know and what you don't.
Anatole France

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

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

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

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan

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

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo