That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportionable eagerness and haste.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?