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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.”

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

“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.”

“Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.”

“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

“Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.”

“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.”

“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 function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

“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.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

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

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

“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 school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

“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.”

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

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

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

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

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

“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.”

“‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.”

“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.”