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“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

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

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”

“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”

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

“No one can take it away from you.”

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

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

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

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

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."”

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”

“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”

“The children are now working as if I did not exist.”

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”

“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.”

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”

“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”