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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.”

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.”

“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”

“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.”

“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.”