It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Aristotle. xi.

  It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries ago.

  The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Of the Training of Children.

  Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise,—all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.

Robert C Winthrop (1809-1894): Yorktown Oration in 1881.

  Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Mathew Henry (1662-1714): Commentaries. Acts x.

  Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii.

  It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 571.

  Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.

Sir Richard Steele (1671-1729): Tatler. No. 49.

  Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Of Travel.

  Another of his sayings was, that education was the best viaticum of old age.

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Aristotle. xi.

  I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

John Milton (1608-1674): Tractate of Education.