Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

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

Public education has not produced an educated public.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought.

Understanding a question is half an answer.