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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.”

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

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

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

“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.”

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

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

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

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

“No one can take it away from you.”

“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.”

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”

“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

“The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

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

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

“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 have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

“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.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“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.”

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”

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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”