“To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.”– Elizabeth Cady Stanton Related Quotes “Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”– Mark Twain “Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they’re 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.”– Ed Markey “Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”– Gilbert K. Chesterton