Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.