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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

“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.”