"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers."
-- Jean Piaget, Swiss Experimenters and Theorists
"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
-- Alexander Pope, British Poet, Critic, Translator
"Formal education is but an incident in the lifetime of an individual. Most of us who have given the subject any study have come to realize that education is a continuous process ending only when ambition comes to a halt."
-- R. I. Rees
"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."
-- Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
"It is only the ignorant who despise education."
-- Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, American Judge
"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."
-- Sam Houston, American Soldier, Statesman
(^^ so true
)"Within the infant rind of this small flower,
poison hath residence and medicine,power"Shakespeare.
"I never let my schooling get in the way of my education."
-Mark Twain.
AND as my dear hooyo use to say "education is the light of your life and goals"