American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.25,'The Dynamo and the Virgin'.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girlsmight be sent to be out of the wayand scramblethemselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.

-Austen,Jane
  Emma, ch.3.

Men have everyadvantage of us in telling their story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

-Austen,Jane
  Persuasion, ch.23.

The test and use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of the mind.

-Barzun,Jacques
  'Science and the Humanities', in the Saturday EveningPost, 3 May.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

-Bell, Bernard Iddings
  In Life,16 Oct.

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

   Ask me my three main priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

-Blair,Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton)
  Speech at the Labour Party Conference,1 Oct.

   Education is the taming or demonstration of the soul's raw passionsönot suppressing them or excising them, whichwould deprivethesoul of its energyöbutforming and informing them as art.

-Bloom, Allan
  The Closing of the American Mind.

If you think education is expensiveötry ignorance.

-Bok, Derek
  In Town and Country, May.

The most fundamental value of a liberal education isthat it makes life more interesting.

-Brewster, Kingman,Jr
Recalled on his death in the NewYork Times, 9 Nov1988.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

-Buchan,John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir
  Memory Hold-the-Door, ch.2.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

-Conant,James Bryant
Quoted in Time, 29 Sep1986.

Aye,'tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an

-Congreve,William

If neither governesses or mothers know, how can they teach? So long as education is not provided for them, how can it be provided by them?

-Davies, (Sarah) Emily
  Paper read at the  Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Sciences, published in Thoughts on Some Questions Relating to Women1860^1908.

Education is impossible without love, without loving a few of the great men of the past.

-Desbiens,Jean-Paul
  For Pity's Sake (translated by Fre¤  de¤  ric Co"   te).

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Speech, House of Commons,15  Jun.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

-Douglas, (George) Norman
  How About Europe?

Sometimes it seems the onlyaccomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

-Drabble, Margaret
  A Summer Birdcage, ch.1.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they so were bred. The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

-Dryden,John
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.3, l.389^92.