“Education is bitter but the fruit is sweet.” 

^{- Agustin Marissa}

“To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.” 

^{- Alan Greenspan}

“Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.” 

^{- Aristippus}

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.” 

^{- B. F. Skinner}

“When the student is ready, the master appears.” 

^{- Buddhist Proverb}

“The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.” 

^{- David E. Rumelhart, "Understanding Reading Comprehension"}

“Education is a vaccine for violence.” 

^{- Edward James Olmos}

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.” 

^{- Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education}

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.” 

^{- Jacob Bronowski}

“To teach is to learn twice.” 

^{- Joseph Joubert}

“Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension.” 

^{- Kelly L. Briggs, "Reading in the Classroom" (2003)}

“When separated, flour, salt, yeast and water do not posess the unique poperties of bread.” 

^{- Lyndon W. Seaross and John E. Readence}

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” 

^{- Mark Twain}

“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.” 

^{- Munshi Premchand}

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” 

^{- Oliver Wendell Holmes}

“Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.” 

^{- President George W. Bush (2001)}

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.” 

^{- Robert Frost}

“Taking an interest in what students are thinking and doing is often as much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.” 

^{- Robert Martin}

“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.” 

^{- Sydney Harris}

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” 

^{- W. B. Yeats}

“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.” 

^{- Wendell Phillips}

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” 

^{- Will Durant}