A man without Education is like a building without foundation.

A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it.

Source: Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us (2009) by Mike Rose.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Source: Francis Bacon, Essays (1625); OF Travel. Complete Sentence: Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

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The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Source: Albert Einstein, in response to not knowing the speed of sound as included in the Edison Test: New York Times (18 May 1921). Complete Sentence: [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. …The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts Read More…

The true purpose of education is to make minds not careers.

Source: Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009). Complete Quote: We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, Read More…

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.