Anyone with a good classical education could learn Chinese by himself without difficulty.
Education Quotes
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself” is credited to John Dewey, but the wording is a paraphrase. He expressed the idea in My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and Democracy and Education (1916) using other words, and the compressed version circulates as if it were a direct quotation. The Einstein line about education being what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school is flagged as well.
The sourced entries are less tidy and better. Carlyle, in Sartor Resartus (1833), called it a tragedy that a man should die ignorant who had the capacity for knowledge. Bertrand Russell argued in Sceptical Essays (1928) that education had become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Eric Hoffer, in Before the Sabbath (1979), wrote that the best education will not immunize a person against corruption by power.
Education is like a lantern which lights your way in a dark alley.
The right to education has the potential to serve as an equalizer of opportunities globally.
Education is very important because you can fall back to it after you are done playing football.
Education is key; it is important that we are educated, if you can, get an education.
The separation of sports and education has made it difficult to discover other stars.
"Why would a person's education be interrupted because they refused to wave a flag?"
How are we fal’n, fal’n by mistaken rules,
And Education’s more than Nature’s fools.