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“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 whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“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.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

“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.”

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

“No one can take it away from you.”

“[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.”

“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.”

“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.”

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

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

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

“The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

“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 task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

“Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

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

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

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

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

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

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

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