"Tis education forms the common mind, just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."

Alexander Pope

"Education is a treasure."

Petronius

"I am still learning."

Michelangelo's motto

"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."

Robert E. Lee

"Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand."

Confucius

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

Abraham Lincoln

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Henry B. Adams

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves."

Francis de Sales

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

Henry David Thoreau

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

William Butler Yeats