Plato said:
"A good education consists in giving to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable."
Thomas Henry Huxley said:
"Education is the instruction of the intellect in the law of nature under which I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with these laws."
John Dewey said:
"Education is a continuous reconstruction or reorganisation of experience which adds to the meaning of experience and increases the ability to direct the course of subsequent experience."
BBC English Dictionary:
"Education is the process through which a person is taught better ways of doing something or a better way of living."
HBJ School Dictionary:
"The development of a person's mind, body or natural talents through study and training."
Encyclopaedia Britannica:
"The critical examination of the grounds of fundamental beliefs and an analysis of the basic concepts employed in the expression of such beliefs."