Education (n.) is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.
Education (n.) at its most lovable moulds a man by a wife's humble subjection; the most rejuvenating is being educated by one's children.
Education (n.) harps on “the highest” more incessantly than a crow repeats its own name — and has invented a new difference, between the educated and the uneducated.
Education (n.) is a gentle deception: it never sets the whole hard task before the child at once, but a little at a time — so eternity, the greatest task, makes itself small through hope, drawing man forward from cradle to grave.
Education (n.) is not about the child learning this or that, but about ripening the mind and rousing its energy.
Education (n.) is the art of being always present and yet not present with a child — leaving him to himself on the grandest scale while, unnoticed, seeing everything.
Education (n.) is the curriculum one must run through in order to catch up with oneself; being born in the most enlightened age helps very little.