Able Quote by William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

— Novalis

Education has for its object the formation of character.

— Herbert Spencer

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

— Thomas A. Edison

The end of education is character

— Sathya Sai Baba

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic…

— William Howard Taft

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing…

— Fulton J. Sheen

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have…

— Richard Livingstone

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

— Amartya Sen

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul…

— Allan Bloom

In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.

— Donald Bren

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to…

— David Suzuki