There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered reincarnation . . . time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. . . . I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.