Quotes about education

Some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovEpilogue, chapter 3 ("Ilusha's Funeral. The Speech at the Stone")Alyosha Karamazov

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

GenuineFyodor DostoevskyLettersLetter to his brother Mikhail, 16 August 1839Fyodor Dostoevsky, aged seventeen