If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. - Chinese proverb

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.- Clarence Thomas

Label on a child's Superman costume: Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly. - Anonymous

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. — Louis L'Amour

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.— Jane Austen

A mind is like an umbrella - only useful when open.— Anonymous

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.-Anonymous

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.— Jennifer A. Nielsen

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry B. Adams

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.-- Thomas Carruthers

All I have learned, I learned from books.— Abraham Lincoln

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.— Walter Scott

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.— Ellen Gilchrist

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 know and what you don't.-- Anatole France

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.  - Author Unknown