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

- Malcolm S. Forbes

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

- Henry Steele Commager

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

- Mortimer Adler

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

- Malcolm X

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

Education is the best provision for old age.

- Aristotle

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

- John F. Kennedy

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry B. Adams

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

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

- Wendy Kaminer

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

- Reverend Edward A. Malloy

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

- Josef Albers

It is only the ignorant who despise education.
- Publilius Syrus

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

- Abraham Lincoln

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

- Alvin Toffler

If ever there can be a cause worthy to be upheld by all toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of education.

- Horace Mann

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

- Epictetus

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

- William Butler Yeats

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

- Plutarch