"The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this,
 that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him,
 the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if he
 does not." - Charles Buxton

"I never let school interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to
 educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Formal education will make you a living;
 self education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn

"We believe that education is one of the principal causes of
 discontent of late years manifesting itself among the laboring classes."
 - Senate Committee on Education and Labor, 1885

"It is natural businessmen should seek to influence the enactment and
 administration of laws, national and international, and that they
 should try to control education." - Max Otto, 1949

"The apparent purpose of education is to convince two thirds of the
 students that they really are stupid." - Edward de Bono

"Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus
 schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of
 thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished."
 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, head of philosophy & psychology
   at Prussian University in Berlin