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

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

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

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

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“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.”

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

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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

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

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

“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 do know and what you don't. 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 great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”

“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.”

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

“It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

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

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

“Teach a child how to think, not what to think.”

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