Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

Since our birth, we have gone through various phases of receiving instruction and education. Up to a certain age, our parents at home would give us the necessary instructions. When we grow up and go to school, we are taught by our teachers. Finally when we start working, we will receive further education from the interaction with society. However I consider the most important form of education as one that is gained from maintaining constant self-awareness.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

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. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

No one can “get” an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. If it does nothing else, it should provide students with the tools for learning, acquaint them with methods of study and research, methods of pursuing an idea. We can only hope they come upon an idea they wish to pursue.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

People think of education as something they can finish.

Today, most education, for what it is worth, is education for jobs. People are simply fitted to make their living in the outer commercial world under the whip of competition. p. 252

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.