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“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”

“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

“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 do know and what you don't. 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.”

“The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.”

“The children are now working as if I did not exist.”

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”

“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.”

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”

“If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.”

“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.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

“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.”

“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

“Teach a child how to think, not what to think.”

“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

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

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

“Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.”

“Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”