Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed...

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life...

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

...even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding...

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

...conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

..for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid pieces of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet you or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. They are full of the things that you don't get in real life--wonderful, lyrical language, for instance. And quality of attention: we may notice amazing details during the course of a day but we rarely let ourselves stop and really pay attention. An author makes you notice, makes you pay attention, and this is a great gift. My gratitude for good writing is unboundec; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.