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

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

“Educators ought to know better than their pupils what an education is. If the educators do not, they have wasted their lives. The art of teaching consists in large part of interesting people in things that ought to interest them, but do not. The task of educators is to discover what an education is and then to invent the methods of interesting their students in it.”

“We're going to have the best educated American people in the world.”

“Education is a systematic process and has a certain territory but learning is unsystematic and has no territory.”

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

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

“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”

“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”

“People with the same education as my own, speaking the same words that I do, loving the same books, the same music, the same paintings, are by no means immune from the danger of turning into monsters and doing things we would not have thought possible among the people of our own day, apart from a few pathological exceptions. If they are not immune, Why should I be so confident of my own immunity?”