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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.”

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

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

“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.”

“The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.”

“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.”

“[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.”

“My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up.”

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

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

“My whole childhood, that made my skin curl. I was looking for something authentic. I think that drove me into the arts, I really do. That really did it. The only other thing that made me survive, as a human being, was getting into the arts. I was surrounded by people that were very bright and they invited you in. They were gracious. So, it gave me a great education.”

“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.”

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