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“The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.”

“...she knew from school that that sort of literature was boring: Gorky was correct but somehow ponderous; Mayakovsky was very correct but somehow awkward; Saltykov-Shchedrin was progressive, but you could die yawning if you tried to read him through; Turgenev was limited to his nobleman's ideals; Goncharov was associated with the beginnings of Russian capitalism; Lev Tolstoi came to favor patriarchal peasantry—and their teacher did not recommend reading Tolstoi's novels because they were very long and only confused the clear critical essays written about him. And then they reviewed a batch of writers totally unknown to anyone: Dostoyevsky, Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, and Sukhovo-Kobylin. It was true that one did not even have to remember the titles of their works. In all this long procession, only Pushkin shone like a sun.”

“Some misguided scientists and professors of academe possess a kind of arrogance. By misguided we mean those who are content with the extent of their formal knowledge without being characterized by its inner meaning. There is often a lack of humility in science and academia. To them, their intellectual-linear paradigms are the one true way to perceive reality.”

“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 know and what you don't.”

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

“Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.”

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

“Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”