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“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

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

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

“No one can take it away from you.”

“But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.”

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

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

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

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

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

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”

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

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

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

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”

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

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

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

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

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

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

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

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

“Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.”