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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.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

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

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“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.”

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

“The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.”

“No one can take it away from you.”

“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”

“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.”

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

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“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.”

“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.”

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”