“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth?”

“Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories.”

“So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.”

“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.”

“No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.”

“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.”