Thoughts on Learning and Education

From the Founding Fathers:

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” - Thomas Jefferson

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.” - Benjamin Franklin

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. - John Adams

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

To other well known Americans:

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

And finally a physicist, a philosopher, and a Christian writer:

Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance. - Albert Einstein

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. - Aristotle (384BC - 322BC)

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.  - C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

A lot of wisdom in those quotes.