"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young"

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation"

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience"

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run"