On Education

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
•Plato

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
•James Baldwin

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

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
•Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
•Paul E. Gray

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were
to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl
should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
•Sir William Haley

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
•Thomas Henry Huxley

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
•R.G. Ingersoll

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
•Oliver Wendell Holmes

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.
•Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch
of a free meandering brook.
•Henry David Thoreau