I don't think I gave a very coherent answer at the time, but I've been thinking about it ever since. Here are some quotes that have shaped my opinion:
"True education is learning how to learn; learning about yourself, your family, the world around you; and, most importantly, getting to know God and His awesome plans for you in His world."
--Janice Southerland
"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."
--Anatole France
"To keep alive the spark of curiosity and the natural love of learning with which all children are born."
--Bill Greer
"There's been no delineation in our family between 'learning' and 'living.' As we live, we learn. It's as simple as that."
--Mark & Helen Hegener
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it."
--William Feather
“He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know.”
--Georg Simmel
“Learning how to learn by learning how to think makes a well-educated person. Learning how to learn not only expands the mind; it also gives you a lifelong asset. Once you have it, it stays with you for the rest of your life.”
--T. Kaori Kitao
“Let children get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher. The less that parents ‘talk-in’ and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children. . . Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts.”
--Charlotte Mason
"In the singular act of living life to its fullest, in appreciating every moment as it unfolds, true education occurs."
--Linda Dobson
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
--William Butler Yeats
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