“Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.”

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

Ernest Dimnet (1866–1954) French writer

“The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.”

Georg Brandes (1842–1927) Danish literature critic and scholar

“This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts…It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading—the sum total of our experience.”

Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer

“To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“The inner trip is not the sole prerogative of the LSD traveler; it’s the universal experience of TV watchers.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for “vulgarity”; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.”

Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism