"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of the youth." -- Aristotle

"Education is the transmission of civilization." -- Will and Ariel Durant

"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and genuine to the bad and counterfeit." -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transplantation of bones from one graveyard to another." -- J. Frank Dobie

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." -- Henry Adams

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain