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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

“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.”

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

“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.”

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“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 learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

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

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