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

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

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

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

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

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

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

“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."”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

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

“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.”

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

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

“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

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

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”

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

“You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”

“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.”