What defeats poverty? Education. What increases net worth? Education. What helps race and ethnic relations? Education. What creates harmony and peace? Education. Re-educating people to live together and learn together is the foundation of our future economy - Melanie Alfonso
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one - Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, British Statesman and Diplomat
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something - Thomas H. Huxley
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education - John Buchan
There is room for a new university that is not a ghetto for the young, but a place where all generations can exchange experience, culture and hope - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity, p29
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live - James Truslow Adams (1878-1949), American historian, writer
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions - Bishop Mandell Creighton
The main crisis in school today is irrelevance - Daniel Pink, Free Agent Nation
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
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal them to their own -- Benjamin Disraeli