“The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.”

“Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.”

“A good deal of education consists of unlearning — the breaking of bad habits, as with a tennis serve. This was emphatically true of a Vassar education: where other colleges aimed at development, bringing out what was already there like a seed waiting to sprout, Vassar remade a girl. Vassar was transformational.”

“The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.”

“For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.”

“By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”

“Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.”

“The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.”

“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.”

“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”