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“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 best provision for old age.”

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

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

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”

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

“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.”

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”

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

“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”

“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.”

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

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

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.”

“The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.”

“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”

“I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.”

“Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.”

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